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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ppaladin123" data-source="post: 4473905" data-attributes="member: 60923"><p>Try animism/Shinto: earth spirits, river gods, forest nymphs, desert djinn, etc. Each is the personification of actual geographical features, i.e. the river god actually IS the river itself. They are cruel, fickle, and amoral like all aspects of nature....each can bring life and death, bounty and bane. The scale of the incursion by the interloper pantheons (demon and devil) is enough to stir them to action. They are not particularly interested in watching the natural world (their domain) fall to demons or devils and so they are willing to act as patrons to adventurers working to stop otherworldly incursions. Some may be "true neutral" and actively interested in preserving the balance/homeostasis of nature...they might act against massive incursion by a morally good pantheon as well.  Some may be "chaotic neutral" and only really interested in protecting themselves (if demons begin to cut down a forest to forge weapons, the local spirits retaliate. They don't really care if the demons kill the humans in the settlement 50 miles to the east).</p></blockquote><p></p>