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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 3471844" data-attributes="member: 50987">Kia ora!  Man, am I glad to see you!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I am not Maori (or even Polynesian, for that matter), so I am at a significant disadvantage here.  I am studying Geology, and the two anthropology classes I have taken so far are electives within that degree program.  I might claim anthro as a minor, however...I really enjoy that subject.In short, I am a scientist trying to study culture.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />Maui was especially difficult for me to connect to domains, because there are so many different (and conflicting) stories about him.  I gave him the Nobility domain because it was the closest thing I could find to "bravery," which was a recurring theme in most stories I researched.  In retrospect, I suppose a lot of his so-called bravery could have been foolhardiness and arrogance....I'm okay with scrapping the Nobility domain, and Ancestor seems to be a good substitution (since there are so many stories about him and his wife.)  But it still seems to be lacking...what else would you add to his list of domains?Mahuika...yeah, associating her to evil was short-sighted (and very lazy) of me.  My reasoning was because in all of the stories that I researched, she was the antagonist.  And since I needed a Lawful Evil in my pantheon, I tweaked her persona to fit.  I was able to find at least one story that supported my adaptation, so I thought that would be sufficient.  Lazy, I know.  How would you adjust her domains, alignment, and backstory to be more faithful to the culture?  How about Knowledge and Magic?Awesome, man...I appreciate the feedback.  If you have any other stories, or know of any other cultural resources out there (books, articles, History Channel episodes, whatever) that I could use to expand my knowledge of the culture, please let me know.  I want this campaign to feel ALIVE.I was really nervous about getting the mythology right, because they are going to be the backbone of the whole campaign.  Did everything look copasetic?</blockquote>

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