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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 784946" data-attributes="member: 1328">I've used a sort of BDR there (belief defines reality).Originally (well, not that originally), there was a few number of greater spirits that competed for creation. Making the best creature was all the rage at the time. There was a lot of creation in this time. And when some spirit had a good idea, the others plagiarized it (this explain the impressive number of humanoid species).When they started creating sentient races, there came a problem. For them. Sentience came with religiosity, and soon various cults were created. Each specie created cults of their creators, each thinking they were the one and only creation of their own pantheon -- while they were in fact one of the many children of a small set of spirit.So, the creator spirit of the human, dwarven, elven, gnome, hin, goblin, orc, and various others, races was adressed as being the whole human pantheon by humans, while being at the same time the whole dwarven pantheon, the whole elven pantheon, etc.This induced schizophrenia drove them crazy until they finally simply bursted like bubbles and each shard of their fragmented personality became a deity on its own right -- but with much, much less reduced capacities.Of course, this creation myth, one of the "truest" there is, is known by very few people. Each culture has its own belief, frequently incompatible, that can often be sumed up as "we are the chosen race, all other creatures are there to act as foes, slaves, or mere annoyance".That's how I managed to conciliate the D&D world (gods works as stated in Deities & Demigods, there are several sentient races, etc.) with a roughly unified mythos.</blockquote>

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