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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1823297" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>Well... you could just add my second list of minor deities to the one of major deities <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> </p><p></p><p>Having a greater Sea deity I think it was common in historical religions. Maybe not worshipped much by inland communities, but still.</p><p></p><p>Darkness could become a major portfolio, and the god(dess) would be worshipped by many nocturnal or underground race. Disease and Murder may be lesser aspects.</p><p></p><p>Magic could be major as usual, I suggested minor just for something different...</p><p></p><p>The Theft and Storm deities are more unlikely to be major, but you could stretch them... after all Zeus & Thor were gods of thunder! You could move Strength to its portfolio also to make is seem more important.</p><p></p><p>Otherwise, what about a LN deity of Time & Fate? Possibly shrouded in mystery even from the others?</p><p>Or a deity of Creation? This last is kind of tricky because it could be already covered by others (Fertility and Craft for example), and also because it could be both lawful (emphasising the planning and the order of a willful organized creation) or chaotic (emphasising invention and quasi-random search for something <em>new</em>).</p><p>Obviously the more the major deities are, the less encompassing, and the more overlap may appear. You could strip Knowledge from the deity of Wisdom & Justice and make a separate N deity of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 1823297, member: 1465"] Well... you could just add my second list of minor deities to the one of major deities :p Having a greater Sea deity I think it was common in historical religions. Maybe not worshipped much by inland communities, but still. Darkness could become a major portfolio, and the god(dess) would be worshipped by many nocturnal or underground race. Disease and Murder may be lesser aspects. Magic could be major as usual, I suggested minor just for something different... The Theft and Storm deities are more unlikely to be major, but you could stretch them... after all Zeus & Thor were gods of thunder! You could move Strength to its portfolio also to make is seem more important. Otherwise, what about a LN deity of Time & Fate? Possibly shrouded in mystery even from the others? Or a deity of Creation? This last is kind of tricky because it could be already covered by others (Fertility and Craft for example), and also because it could be both lawful (emphasising the planning and the order of a willful organized creation) or chaotic (emphasising invention and quasi-random search for something [I]new[/I]). Obviously the more the major deities are, the less encompassing, and the more overlap may appear. You could strip Knowledge from the deity of Wisdom & Justice and make a separate N deity of it. [/QUOTE]
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