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<blockquote data-quote="Roman" data-source="post: 1821537" data-attributes="member: 1845"><p>I am not familiar with the Sandman series comics, but you just spurred me to have an idea. How about something along the lines of using only emotions as gods? Something like: </p><p></p><p>Fury </p><p></p><p>Fear </p><p></p><p>Love </p><p></p><p>Happiness </p><p></p><p>Serenity </p><p></p><p>Hate </p><p></p><p>Grief </p><p></p><p>It would be interesting in that it would be different. Then perhaps fitting every other portfolio as a sub-portfolio of one of these emotions. I am not sure, though, whether it would actually be workable and not a bit too limiting to make all the 'High Gods' emotion based. For example, I cannot for the life of me think under what emotion I would fit such a crutial portfolio as nature. Perhaps under Serenity - but that itself represents only one aspect of nature... Or where to fit in magic... or a multitude of other very important portfolios. Ok, perhaps those two examples are such that they are crucial but are forces in their own right and thus can stand on their own - without a God. But what quite important portfolios like for example wealth? People should be able to pray for that... not necessarily to a specific god of wealth, but certainly to a god that covers that portfolio also. And there are other such examples... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Any suggestions? What do you consider to be important portfolios - I am sure that if I could identify them all, I could work out something with them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roman, post: 1821537, member: 1845"] I am not familiar with the Sandman series comics, but you just spurred me to have an idea. How about something along the lines of using only emotions as gods? Something like: Fury Fear Love Happiness Serenity Hate Grief It would be interesting in that it would be different. Then perhaps fitting every other portfolio as a sub-portfolio of one of these emotions. I am not sure, though, whether it would actually be workable and not a bit too limiting to make all the 'High Gods' emotion based. For example, I cannot for the life of me think under what emotion I would fit such a crutial portfolio as nature. Perhaps under Serenity - but that itself represents only one aspect of nature... Or where to fit in magic... or a multitude of other very important portfolios. Ok, perhaps those two examples are such that they are crucial but are forces in their own right and thus can stand on their own - without a God. But what quite important portfolios like for example wealth? People should be able to pray for that... not necessarily to a specific god of wealth, but certainly to a god that covers that portfolio also. And there are other such examples... :( Any suggestions? What do you consider to be important portfolios - I am sure that if I could identify them all, I could work out something with them. [/QUOTE]
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