Help me build an OGC outer plane cosmology

[VelvetViolet]

There are a number of mythological afterlives/pantheons that could be focused around: (some have been condensed due to occupying similar space)

Amerindian (Great Plains, etc) -- this is where the Happy Hunting Grounds comes from, includes deities like Coyote and Raven, unexplored territory
Celtic (Irish, Gallic, Welsh) -- includes the Tuatha De Danann and Arthurian mythos
Chinese -- Celestial Bureaucracy, plus the idea of hell as a place of purification rather than torment
Egyptian -- no explanation needed
Greco-Roman -- no explanation needed
Indian -- this isn't explored very often, and has an interesting comparison with Zoroastrianism in the Ahura/Deva conflict
Japanese -- unexplored territory
Mesoamerican (Aztec, Maya) -- unexplored territory
Mesopotamian (Arabian, Babylonian, Canaanite, Zoroastrian) -- unexplored territory (aside from Tiamat and Bahamut, who don't even resemble their original myths), also the precursor to Abrahamic faiths
Norse -- no explanation needed
Slavic -- unexplored territory
South American (Inca) -- unexplored territory
West African/Caribbean (Yoruban, Voodoo) -- unexplored territory

What would be really great is if there was already some OGC books about the real-world pantheons, like what Scion did.

EDIT: Okay, Bastion Press' Lore of the Gods has all OGC text for the Greek, Egyptian, Norse and Mesopotamian pantheons, which is great. And I found a Celtic pantheon netbook.

 

[Nellisir]

EDIT: Okay, Bastion Press' Lore of the Gods has all OGC text for the Greek, Egyptian, Norse and Mesopotamian pantheons, which is great. And I found a Celtic pantheon netbook.

Huh. I didn't know about the Mesopotamian pantheon. I have the other 3 in pdf. Good resources, I agree.

I still haven't had a chance to dig through my 3e pdf library, but I will.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

If you are using Eden as one of the planes, a good antipodal counterpart would be Nod. The land of Cain's wandering, where he built the first city. I could see it as an infinite city, with labyrinthine streets.

 

[Nellisir]

If you are using Eden as one of the planes, a good antipodal counterpart would be Nod. The land of Cain's wandering, where he built the first city. I could see it as an infinite city, with labyrinthine streets.

Well that works, since it replaces Chasm.

 

[VelvetViolet]

Since Cain married Lilith according to some folklore (the Zohar, I think?), the native inhabitants of Nod could be the Cainites (children of Cain and Lilith) and the Lilithim (children of Lilith by the demons she met during her wandering). Lilithim are self-explanatory (succubi, basically), but Cainites would be more a collection of various super-humans and monsters, like Grendels and the original Nephilim (offspring of Cain's daughters and an angelic choir called Grigori).

 

[Orius]

Perhaps Nod, as an infinite city, could also play a similar the Sigil does in the official cosmology as a central planar nexus.

 

[VelvetViolet]

Perhaps Nod, as an infinite city, could also play a similar the Sigil does in the official cosmology as a central planar nexus.

Classic Play: Book of Planes already has three different nexus planes. You could even decide to expand Dunmorgause Castle by having it start abducting people and whole countries from the Prime and stitching them onto it, all because the politics of the castle began to spiral out of control.

 

[Nellisir]

Perhaps Nod, as an infinite city, could also play a similar the Sigil does in the official cosmology as a central planar nexus.

I really like this idea. And I like it more than Sigil, because you can dispense with the kooky architecture.

 

[VelvetViolet]

I really like this idea. And I like it more than Sigil, because you can dispense with the kooky architecture.

I like kooky architecture.

Also, The Books of Faith: Hinduism includes a rundown of the most popular Hindu deities and how to include Hinduism in campaigns (no statistics for the deities are provided, just the info relevant to being a cleric). There's also The Books of Faith: Jainism, and the other books in Dog Soul's Folkloric line.

 

[Nellisir]

I like kooky architecture.

Alright, kooky architecture is fine. It's the torus geography that I find pointless and kinda silly. It limits the city.