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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bohandas" data-source="post: 7839515" data-attributes="member: 7015707">It depends on the god's portfolio. It also depends on the strength of the god's connection to their portfolio, and there are different levels of this: To use a sun god for an example, at one end of the scale you could have a sun god who IS the sun. A step down from that you could have a god who the sun is an extension of or who empowers the sun to shine. A step down from that you could have a god who controls the sun, but the sun exists independently of them. A step down from that you could have a god who has some influence over the sun or can use it to do some larger-than-life trick (such as generating targeted solar flares, or using the sun as a giant scrying sensor which can see everything that happens during the day, or empowering it to drive off the undead) but doesn't have full control over it. On a similar level to that you could have a god wherein instead of the sun being an extension of the god the god is an extension of the sun. A step down from that you could have a god who's not so much an extension of the sun as much as just some fragment of it that happened to develop an independent sentient existence. Finally, a step down from that, you could have a god who merely lives on the sun or something, or a god who merely resembles the sun.The death of a god in one of the first two categories would be cataclysmic and plunge the world into eternal darkness. The death of a god in one of the latter categories not so much. And in many of the established settings the sun gods fall decidedly into the later categories, as there tend to be a multitude of them who are distinct entities and not part of one another.</blockquote>

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