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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sckeener" data-source="post: 3688845" data-attributes="member: 8801">I've always been a fan of the Egyptian gods and one of the structures I always liked was good people could worship evil gods.  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekhmet" target="_blank">Shekhmet</a> brought diseases, but people worshiped her to prevent them.  The evil version of Set was worshiped to fight evil.  Demons were called to fight Demons.What I take from that for Forgotten Realms is people know a little bit about the major gods and goddesses and when they are feeling a certain way they identify with that god....say if they suffer a horrible loss they might identify with Shar...I can image a teenage daughter losing her twin sister searching any where for answers to her loss.  The parents wanting to help, but she feels that they just don't 'get' her loss.  She mopes around until a charismatic stranger comes to village and he seems to understand her loss.  Eventually the stranger teaches her to embrace loss...that loss teaches.  Admittedly in my version of the story it would be more like a scene from SAW...namely that the stranger kidnaps the daughter and teaches her about true loss...and if she survives she might make a good Shar priestess.</blockquote>