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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 5400790" data-attributes="member: 32536">It's kind of hard to think of nine good celestial bodies, but let's see...With a set of five gods for the five major planets (the main five that are easily visible from Earth are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, which are all strongly associated with the deities they are named after) and a set of four zodiac gods (each associated with a season), that is nine deities right there... You could pretty much assign alignments however you wanted with that kind of set-up. If you look into classic astrological ideas of what planets and constellations have represented in the past, I bet you could get a lot of inspiration. It doesn't make a lot of sense from an astronomical perspective, but apparently Saturn was seen as something akin to Chaotic Evil in the past.Otherwise...The Sun: Neutral Good. Not Lawful, since it would be seen as a moving, unfixed object to any society that hasn't developed a heliocentric model of the universe.The Moon: Hard to say. It is very much the sun's companion, changing more but with a very reliable pattern. True Neutral, ever fickle but never truly malevolent or benevolent, is probably best.Neutral Evil could probably be represented by a regular, bright comet that is seen as a terrible omen.The Lawful alignments are probably best represented by the stars, the celestial firmament. Lawful Neutral would be a pole star, an absolute constant within the observable universe. Lawful Evil and Lawful Good may be seen as powerful forces spinning the wheel of the zodiac, commanding a host of constellations as their servants as their influence slowly alternates across the stellar year. The idea that individual stars represent clear body parts of these deities may be important.The Chaotic deities would be the planets who wander across the cosmos, bright and powerful, but unpredictable. Perhaps a Chaotic Neutral Morning/Evening Star and Chaotic Good and Chaotic Evil patterned on the supposed benign influence of Jupiter (in his image as god of happiness) and malevolent influence of Saturn.</blockquote>

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