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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 4592070" data-attributes="member: 32536">Well, the fact that 4E does explicitly do away with racial pantheons hurts your claim... In 4E, Moradin is just as much the patron of human blacksmiths as he is the god of the dwarves.Besides, in real world old-school polytheistic religion, people didn't have a problem with praying to Bast one minute and Zeus the next. In his Histories, Herodotus wrote at length about the similarities between his native Greek/Roman religion and Egyptian religion, and considered the Egyptian gods to merely be the Greek gods by another name. And then there are the matters of Isis being accepted as-is into Roman worship, and the Buddha's acceptance into Hinduism as one of the reincarnations of Vishnu... Ever more extreme than that is the religious syncretism that pretty much defines East Asian religion, where you find Shinto gods in Buddhist temples and Taoism, Confusionism, Buddhism, and generic animism blend together seamlessly.Edit: Almost forgot to address the evil thing... Well, it is a bit problematic for there to be pure evil gods (I never quite liked that in D&D, honestly), but it has some precedent with the worship of gods like Loki, Saturn, etc. It can just be as easily explained as the Invoker trying to placate or ward off the influence of the evil gods anyways. Besides, the gods of 4E do have a common enemy and some common goals, regardless of individual differences (which is more than could be said of Loki and Saturn at some points).</blockquote>

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