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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aust Diamondew" data-source="post: 2726552" data-attributes="member: 5156">While in Polytheistic mythologies the Gods do compete and take sides I think you'll rarely find mortals killing/converting whole groups of other mortals for worshiping a God they don't like.  Where as in D&D they will.One of the reasons for the greater of extend of conflict among D&D deities is that in the D&D universe the Gods don't form much of a Pantheon but seem more like individual Gods taken from different Mythologies (which indeed some of them are).  Which happens in real life in a polytheistic religion but in real life the Gods get altered so that they fit into the mythology better.Not only that but D&D Gods can have wildly different and varied idealologies (this could be do in part to the alignment system).  Most Greek gods don't have an ideaology, they're just in charge of some stuff and pretty much do whatever they feel like.Loki has been mentioned as being Thors antagonist.  And while Loki has deific power you never hear much about worship of him when looking at Norse religion.  Thor was the most popular of the Gods among the Norse but he is not their leader, Odin is.  Therefore worship does not necessarily equate to power.  Many creatures and beings in Norse mythology are not worshipped but are at least equal in power to the Gods who do have worshipers.  Odin in Ragnarok will be slain by the Fenris wolf (one his sons immidiately afterwards rips Fenris in half by the Jaws).  Tyr will kill the beast Garm but will die of wounds shortly afterward.  Heimdall and Loki will fall simultaneously in battle while fighting each other.  Thor will die as the World Serpeants poison works through him immidiatley after killing it.  And Freyr will fall fighting the Fire Giant Surt after wounding him with an antler.  And then Surt burns the cosmos.I don't hear about any Norse worship of any of the beings in opposition to the Gods.My point worship does not necessarily equal power (though it might in other cosmologies or D&D).</blockquote>

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