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<blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 2729196" data-attributes="member: 30001">AFAIK the sources for Norse Mythology that survive were not surveys of the population's beliefs at the time period, much less earlier time periods.&nbsp; It's possible, AFAIK, that Loki was an influential deity at some previous time, or for a group that the writers of the Eddas did not represent.&nbsp; (The deity of Set, from Egyptian myth, is IMO a more clearly documented example of this sort of thing happening - ie.&nbsp; a previously revered deity getting &quot;bad press&quot; from his rival's clerics)IMO, with some creative interpretation, you could use real-world mythology to justify the &quot;worshippers=power&quot; formula.&nbsp; If there is an evil giantess in Norse mythology, you could propose that the giantess was a misremembering of the goddess of an evil celtic tribe, or of a group from the edge of the world that no one has ever heard of.&nbsp; Also, you could consider that personal power is not the same thing as deity power.&nbsp; So a deity would continue to be a 50th level character, and could stomp adventurers just as easily as before his loss of worshippers.&nbsp; But losing worshippers would mean that the deity would have less knowledge of events in the world and less influence on those events.&nbsp; A loss of strategic power, as opposed to his fireballs doing less damage.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gizmo33, post: 2729196, member: 30001"] AFAIK the sources for Norse Mythology that survive were not surveys of the population's beliefs at the time period, much less earlier time periods. It's possible, AFAIK, that Loki was an influential deity at some previous time, or for a group that the writers of the Eddas did not represent. (The deity of Set, from Egyptian myth, is IMO a more clearly documented example of this sort of thing happening - ie. a previously revered deity getting "bad press" from his rival's clerics) IMO, with some creative interpretation, you could use real-world mythology to justify the "worshippers=power" formula. If there is an evil giantess in Norse mythology, you could propose that the giantess was a misremembering of the goddess of an evil celtic tribe, or of a group from the edge of the world that no one has ever heard of. Also, you could consider that personal power is not the same thing as deity power. So a deity would continue to be a 50th level character, and could stomp adventurers just as easily as before his loss of worshippers. But losing worshippers would mean that the deity would have less knowledge of events in the world and less influence on those events. A loss of strategic power, as opposed to his fireballs doing less damage. [/QUOTE]

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