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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlassEye" data-source="post: 4046761" data-attributes="member: 40413">I agree with bardsandsages: this is very important.  I'd go so far as to say you need to know what the whole was like before the death of Aarishem before you can understand how it is afterwards.  As for Court of Pursuits: as you can probably tell, I'm a big fan of labels and titles.  So when I looked over your pantheon looking for a major theme, I saw gods related to human endeavor and it just...appeared. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" />I understand your thinking behind this deity.  I'm just unsure how well pureness of the soul and gothic feel pantheon mesh.  Consider making him LN.  If he's LN then he is still the god of monastic activities (scribing, chants, etc.) but you are open to create a LG sect that still holds to things the way they were 100 years ago and strives for purity, a sect of dispassionate (I like that word) but legalistic recorders, and perhaps, a cult that delves into the darker mysteries.If you wish to stick with the gothic feel, you might want to look at your deities and perhaps tone down the goodness/benevolent aspects.  The guilt aspect of Hirax is a good representation of a good deity with a darker feel.'k, I'm getting a better feel for this guy.  I like the darker paladin of vengeance/oaths idea but I'm still not seeing the connect with contracts and stealing mortal souls.No specific ideas.  I'm also a fan of dictionaries, though, and when I make up names I like to 1) look in the Oxford English Dictionary and check out etymologies of related words and piece together a name, or 2) choose a real-world language to represent a culture then use an online english-whatever dictionary and look up words I think represent whatever it is (a deity in this case) and piece together a name from the foreign words.  It may be a mutilated version of the word but it makes me feel like it has meaning to it.Dispater seems kinda redundant to me.  On the former angel side you have Astaroth (whom I really like and would like to see made into prime bad god) and the fey side you have Maglaura.  Both of those are involved in dark magics.  I'm not sure that Dispater is unique enough but I'm not sure what you should do with him.</blockquote>

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