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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8196110" data-attributes="member: 6915329">A friend of mine and I brainstormed a pantheon that was supposed to be a world-wide one--a handful of gods that everyone worshiped as they desired. However, the gods were unnamed and didn't have official single interpretation or even a single accepted appearance or gender. They had names for the list we came up with, but the names were all along the lines of The Ember or The Balancer; they didn't have &quot;people names.&quot; The Ember was fire, but it could be worshiped it as a god of the sun, a god of the hearth, as a god of fiery destruction, or as a god of passion, or something else flame-related entirely. The Balancer was a god of life and death, but some saw it as a kindly psychopomp, others saw it as a dispassionate controller of the wheel of reincarnation, and others saw it as a monster with an unending hunger for death. Individuals might name their interpretation of the god, but it wasn't their true name.So I'd kind of like to see something like that, with a heavier &quot;Masks of God&quot; approach.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8196110, member: 6915329"] A friend of mine and I brainstormed a pantheon that was supposed to be a world-wide one--a handful of gods that everyone worshiped as they desired. However, the gods were unnamed and didn't have official single interpretation or even a single accepted appearance or gender. They had names for the list we came up with, but the names were all along the lines of The Ember or The Balancer; they didn't have "people names." The Ember was fire, but it could be worshiped it as a god of the sun, a god of the hearth, as a god of fiery destruction, or as a god of passion, or something else flame-related entirely. The Balancer was a god of life and death, but some saw it as a kindly psychopomp, others saw it as a dispassionate controller of the wheel of reincarnation, and others saw it as a monster with an unending hunger for death. Individuals might name their interpretation of the god, but it wasn't their true name. So I'd kind of like to see something like that, with a heavier "Masks of God" approach. [/QUOTE]

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