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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6923951" data-attributes="member: 4937">If you only have 9 deities in your pantheon, your deities will need to be much broader than that.For example, at least one lawful has to be the deity of all of the following: Submission, Tradition, Rhetoric, Solemnity, Sobriety, Reason, Cleanliness, Technology, Construction, Planning, Writing, Law, Contracts, Intuition, Lucidity, Supervision, Redaction, Regulation, Profit, Labor, Stability, Agreement, Rulership, Predictability, Durability, Logic, Justice, Retribution, Government, Honor, Oaths, Seasons, Fate, Slavery, Servitude and so on and so on.Also, Lawful Evil more captures the idea of The Assimilator or The Enslaver, than it does the destroyer.&nbsp; Lawful Evil doesn't prefer that you stop existing.&nbsp; Lawful Evil prefers you are its slave, and it prefers slaves that are unhappy and afraid and suffering for its happiness.&nbsp; The needs of the many outweigh the good of anyone.My advice is to get an old fashioned paper theasaurus and flip through the book examining the headings.&nbsp; For each heading, assign the idea it encapsulates to the alignment you think best relates to that idea.&nbsp; In the case of something very broad like 'war', you might need to split it up into to separate ideas like 'war' and 'protection'.&nbsp; So you'd have a war god that embodies the idea of war to protect the group from enemies - a knightly war god - and a god that embodies wars horror and conflict.&nbsp; War is chaos, but how people respond to it is often highly ordered.&nbsp; Eventually you'll end up with 50 or so words in each box.&nbsp; Then try to imagine what the god that embodies each box is like.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Greek Olympians is one approach to that, creating lots of stories about the gods and thus giving them very diverse spheres of influence based on the stories - Artemis is goddess of the moon, hunting, young girls, childbirth, virgins, marketplaces, trees that grow near water, untamed wildeness, untamed anything, and a bunch of other stuff.&nbsp; Another approach is the one you see in Hinduism, to try to draw a being that is simultaneously representing all these things by way of multiple heads and multiple arms, each performing a task related to one of its spheres of influence.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6923951, member: 4937"] If you only have 9 deities in your pantheon, your deities will need to be much broader than that. For example, at least one lawful has to be the deity of all of the following: Submission, Tradition, Rhetoric, Solemnity, Sobriety, Reason, Cleanliness, Technology, Construction, Planning, Writing, Law, Contracts, Intuition, Lucidity, Supervision, Redaction, Regulation, Profit, Labor, Stability, Agreement, Rulership, Predictability, Durability, Logic, Justice, Retribution, Government, Honor, Oaths, Seasons, Fate, Slavery, Servitude and so on and so on. Also, Lawful Evil more captures the idea of The Assimilator or The Enslaver, than it does the destroyer. Lawful Evil doesn't prefer that you stop existing. Lawful Evil prefers you are its slave, and it prefers slaves that are unhappy and afraid and suffering for its happiness. The needs of the many outweigh the good of anyone. My advice is to get an old fashioned paper theasaurus and flip through the book examining the headings. For each heading, assign the idea it encapsulates to the alignment you think best relates to that idea. In the case of something very broad like 'war', you might need to split it up into to separate ideas like 'war' and 'protection'. So you'd have a war god that embodies the idea of war to protect the group from enemies - a knightly war god - and a god that embodies wars horror and conflict. War is chaos, but how people respond to it is often highly ordered. Eventually you'll end up with 50 or so words in each box. Then try to imagine what the god that embodies each box is like. The Greek Olympians is one approach to that, creating lots of stories about the gods and thus giving them very diverse spheres of influence based on the stories - Artemis is goddess of the moon, hunting, young girls, childbirth, virgins, marketplaces, trees that grow near water, untamed wildeness, untamed anything, and a bunch of other stuff. Another approach is the one you see in Hinduism, to try to draw a being that is simultaneously representing all these things by way of multiple heads and multiple arms, each performing a task related to one of its spheres of influence. [/QUOTE]

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