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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 6924161" data-attributes="member: 6704184">I'm gonna go the opposite direction, for a moment. The gods don't need to be that well defined. Also, not every aspect of a thing needs a god that cares about it. There doesnt need to be a a god of rhetoric or sobriety at all, for instance. Maybe one guy goes to the lawful good guy for rhetoric, while another goes to the more creative chaotic good god. Both make sense. Same deal with slavery, only look to evil deities here. Submission is complex, and not always about order. Instead, consider gods that don't so much have set in stone domains over which they rule as alignments they vaguely embody. The good god is good, not the divine governor of love and hope and compassion. Her clergy have domains they focus on within the vague umbrella of Good, and her champions take oaths that promote good, but there is no goddess of hope, because hope comes in so many forms and guises, as does love, and mercy, and wrath, and war. The cleric of the Chaotic Good goddess may be a cleric of hope, and so might the cleric of Chaotic Evil, who whispers complacent thoughts into the hearts of men. See: the complexity and changing nature of the idea of Hope in Ancient Greece through the centuries. Was it left in Pandoras Box as a guard against the evils, or was it the most insidious of the evils things, or was it both? Also as to which god created the universe, why just one of them? does the universe have only one nature? Or does it contain multitudes? Are the evil gods abominations or are they an inherent part of the cosmos just like the gods of good?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 6924161, member: 6704184"] I'm gonna go the opposite direction, for a moment. The gods don't need to be that well defined. Also, not every aspect of a thing needs a god that cares about it. There doesnt need to be a a god of rhetoric or sobriety at all, for instance. Maybe one guy goes to the lawful good guy for rhetoric, while another goes to the more creative chaotic good god. Both make sense. Same deal with slavery, only look to evil deities here. Submission is complex, and not always about order. Instead, consider gods that don't so much have set in stone domains over which they rule as alignments they vaguely embody. The good god is good, not the divine governor of love and hope and compassion. Her clergy have domains they focus on within the vague umbrella of Good, and her champions take oaths that promote good, but there is no goddess of hope, because hope comes in so many forms and guises, as does love, and mercy, and wrath, and war. The cleric of the Chaotic Good goddess may be a cleric of hope, and so might the cleric of Chaotic Evil, who whispers complacent thoughts into the hearts of men. See: the complexity and changing nature of the idea of Hope in Ancient Greece through the centuries. Was it left in Pandoras Box as a guard against the evils, or was it the most insidious of the evils things, or was it both? Also as to which god created the universe, why just one of them? does the universe have only one nature? Or does it contain multitudes? Are the evil gods abominations or are they an inherent part of the cosmos just like the gods of good? [/QUOTE]

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