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<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4592067" data-attributes="member: 54846">Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall Norse having that many Gods. Also, the business of Gods is a muddled mess. Take Egyptians; Bast was a War god in one African region, before it got taken over or adapted by another region, and the god gets changed because they all ready have a War god or something, so you have a lot of recycling, rebranding, and the same &quot;Idea&quot; gets reinvented. This can lead to an inflation of the number of Gods. &nbsp;I wouldn't count these. Shinto and &quot;Lminor local gods&quot; is encrouching more on what I would consider Animism/spirits, which is the Shaman's bag. When you have &quot;The god of the local river and the god of that forest next door&quot;, that's not the traditional cleric thing, that's druid/shaman territory, at leaset in D&amp;D terms. &nbsp;&nbsp;Also, Hinduism is a real muddled mess. Because many of the Gods are just avatars/manifestations of the three chief gods (and, depending on who you talk to, some Hindus think that two of the three gods are just aspects of the other!).Again, I mentioned saints, angels, and a host of minor things working with an Invoker, but I do not think that fits with specific, unrelated Gods.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 4592067, member: 54846"] Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall Norse having that many Gods. Also, the business of Gods is a muddled mess. Take Egyptians; Bast was a War god in one African region, before it got taken over or adapted by another region, and the god gets changed because they all ready have a War god or something, so you have a lot of recycling, rebranding, and the same "Idea" gets reinvented. This can lead to an inflation of the number of Gods. I wouldn't count these. Shinto and "Lminor local gods" is encrouching more on what I would consider Animism/spirits, which is the Shaman's bag. When you have "The god of the local river and the god of that forest next door", that's not the traditional cleric thing, that's druid/shaman territory, at leaset in D&D terms. Also, Hinduism is a real muddled mess. Because many of the Gods are just avatars/manifestations of the three chief gods (and, depending on who you talk to, some Hindus think that two of the three gods are just aspects of the other!). Again, I mentioned saints, angels, and a host of minor things working with an Invoker, but I do not think that [I]fits[/I] with specific, unrelated Gods. [/QUOTE]

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