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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6923870" data-attributes="member: 4937">That's a decision that only you the GM can make, and it's a very important decision because it says something about the nature of the universe and also to a certain extent whose philosophy is right.  For example, if you make your creator god Lawful, then you are saying essentially that this particular universe was intended to be orderly and so any randomness and any disorder in it is actually a defect in the universe that probably should be removed.   If your make your creator god Good, then you are saying that things like Hope, Justice, and Love are real things and that the universe was meant to be ruled by these things.  If on the other hand you make your creator god Evil, then you are saying that hope, justice, and love are lies and things that don't exist and have no tangible reality - grind the universe up into its finest particle and you'll never find a single grain of love or justice.  The reality of that world is the reality of horror, pain, suffering, and it's possibly - owing to its origin - not a world that is redeemable.   If you make the creator god Chaos, then you are saying that all meaning is created, the only purpose that can exist is one you set for yourself, and that all truth is relative, and that the source of all wrongness is believing otherwise.If you make your creator God true neutral, then the right answer is that there is neither good, nor evil, nor chaos, nor law, but all these things are necessary and wrong only in immoderation.  Good and evil, light and dark, are just two sides of the same coin.  One can't exist without the other.For this reason, I prefer in my own homebrew setting to have the creator god mysterious and unrevealed, and to keep my opinions regarding the nature of that creator god private.  In this way, the philosophical debates that arise among the lesser gods of his creation, are not ones that can easily be resolved, and mortals can disagree over what the truth is.So I'd prefer to have 9 gods in a pantheon that did not know their creator, and even if they had created everything else after that, they still would lack complete authority.  In such a situation, each probably would imagine that their creator was like themselves.   The evil god would think he's justified in his evil, because his creator abandoned him.   The good god would think that he's justified in his good, because clearly the creator was a creator like himself but of greater stature.  The neutral god would think that clearly the creator was neutral, else he wouldn't have created a world with the possibility of both good and evil.  The chaotic would think that this is all nonsense, since clearly everything happened by chance and its probably that there is no creator god.  The lawful would think that clearly this all had a purpose.If I had to pick one, I'd pick True Neutral - a good of judgment, destiny, and fate.   Then I'd create a cosmology that left open the possibility of transformation, with the widely held belief that one day the TN god would settle the quarrels among the other gods, pass judgement, and set one over the others as the one whose ways had been right.</blockquote>

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