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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7154328" data-attributes="member: 6801228">One aspect of it is a logical extension of the mythos. Why did pretty much all Greek Sailors make offerings to Poseidon? Because your life and livelihood depended on his good will. So it follows with deities for farming or commerce as well, you take them on as your patron because what you do in life tends to revolve around their sphere of influence. Then you can have vows and things like that. I had an NPC mob boss (this did not end well but I thought it was an interesting idea) who had made a vow to the god of healing in exchange for his son's miraculous recovery from a serious illness. In exchange, he wouldn't kill someone or order someone killed for a year and a day. You could imagine the child growing up and perhaps taking the god of healing as his patron, because he literally owes his life to that church. Eventually it gets to the point where the question isn't "Why do you have a patron deity" and the question is instead "Why don't you have a patron deity" because there are so many reasons you would have one. Even if it is simply that you identify as a worshiper of this deity because your parents or grandparents were devout so that's your default even if you never pray , go to church, or where any iconography.</blockquote>