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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6347427" data-attributes="member: 6669384">We allowed the deity.  His character is from the Canary Islands, and the fact is that there are no official sources for any of the African religions.The question was never really about the deity.  The question was, do we allow him to select a non-cannon deity, *AND* then not follow the guidelines that come with it?The write up in Deities and Demigods says that, while the deity is both creation and destruction, the two aspects are worshiped separately by the religious sects, and thus have two different Domain lists.  The player wants his character to be able to select from both lists, claiming that she (male player, female character) worships both aspects at once.  (Unlike every other Cleric of that deity.)My own thought is, if you want to bring in something that's questionable, you ought to at least follow the rules that come with it.This is, by the way, academic at this point.  I referred the player to some Wikipedia entries on African religions and he selected a deity from that source.  He also decided not to try and twist things, domain wise.The Wikipedia source included, for many of the religions included, specific things the various deities were responsible for, reading almost like a domain list.  Very helpful in our situation.</blockquote>