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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 5396579" data-attributes="member: 92511">Thanks very much. I have a life long interest in ancient mythologies and religions. Coming up with deities/pantheons is one of my favorite elements to creating a world. I actually incorporated a few things in yours that I didn't in my own world. haha. I really like the whole cleestial hero/monster battle concept of Vatan and Hydra (shades of Marduk and Tiamat).I also like that there are only 3 goddesses (1 good, 1 neutral, 1 evil...1 spring/brith, 1 "life", 1 decay/death)...who, somewhat unconsciously...could very easily be incorporated together as a Triple-goddess figure.Maybe you could have/set up a all female religious order who worships them as One...outside of the "Imperial religion"...Creates some dramatic tension between the "official church" and those "heathen witches". The joint religion/Triple-goddess would be Neutral-based...though certain members would obviously lean towards good or evil more heavily...making their concerted efforts to worship outside of the Imperial church rather difficult...keeping them small/sect-like status in the public view.Um...hmm. Ok...Again, off the top of my head. Well, if you're keeping Ralaster as the god of murder, thus patron deity for assassins, I would incorporate a clerical/priestly caste into their organization (also useful as the party increases in power to have a magical component to the organization to thwart some of the party's magic as well as offering magical support (being able to negate attempts to scry/find them not being the least of its uses). I'd keep this fairly simple (and keep in mind that Ralaster, as I've presented him, is "The Fire Lord"):The field agents: The Gray Men (maybe add "Twilight Men" as an alternative name.)The "lieutenants"/mid level assassin types: The Night Captains.The priests, on par with the mid-level types: The Brothers of the Night's Fire. (might set up some drama/tension for the party to have to put together this dark priesthood is actually in league with/the same organization as the Brothers of Rhone The higher up assassins and priests are combined in rank to form: The Burning Ones....OO! Or the Ring of the Black Shards!The high priest/top cleric: The Knife of Rhone.The TOP assassin, head of the order...possibly an assassin/cleric combo: "The Burning Shard" ("of Rhone"?) sounds pretty ominous. (obviously, with a lifetime as an assassin, no one knows his actual name) Or swap the two top ones if you think it makes more sense...the high priest would be "the Burning Shard" and the top assassin would be the Knife of Rhone...if you prefer.It would make sense...and make it more difficult for the party, if you made the higher-ups/homebase of the organization centered in one of the kingdoms below the Imperial city...or spread out throughout them all?  Ok...so there's a single military for the Imperial city, you mean? Or a single military that handles the imperial and the 5 cities below? What would you be looking for with this? Another hierarchical/organizational list of military titles?--SD</blockquote>

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