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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9523053" data-attributes="member: 2209">Interestingly in OD&D Jim Ward's Deities, Demigods, and Heroes has Kipputyo as Maiden of Pain and Loviatar as Mother of Plague.[ATTACH=full]387799[/ATTACH]Jim Ward's 1e's Deities and Demigods then switches them:[ATTACH=full]387800[/ATTACH][SPOILER="spoilered for 1e topless art"][ATTACH=full]387802[/ATTACH][/SPOILER]Ed Greenwood used a bunch of deities from 1e Deities and Demigods in creating his Forgotten Realms Faerun pantheon. Some he adapts to various degrees changing names and/or aspects and some he uses straight, others are his original creation.He details this in a fantastic early dragon article, Down to Earth Divinity in Dragon 54.You can find out things there like Ilmater is a renamed Issek of the Jug from Lankhmar and no connection to Finnish Ilmatar while Loviatar is taken straight from the DDG Finnish pantheon."ILMATER This god appears as a broken man, with smashed hands which he constantly uses. He is the willing sufferer, similar to lssek of the Jug (DDG, p. 100). He shares the latter’s power to manifest himself in creatures being tortured, but only if such creatures are of good alignment and have not done anything to deserve such treatment.""LOVIATAR Taken straight from DDG, p. 60.""MIELIKKI Allied to Silvanus, the goddess of all rangers is taken straight from DDG, p. 60."2e Faiths and Avatars has a little on Forgotten Realms Kiputytto under Talona:Some old texts of Talona refer to her as Kiputytto, but this is actually the name of a rival demipower who challenged Talona's portfolio and lost. The battle between the two goddesses destroyed the Netherese survivor state of Asram in its wake. When Kiputytto attacked Talona, Talona plagued the ill-fated Asram in order to obtain the devotional power generated from the worship of its citizens, who hoped to appease Talona and lessen the effects of the disease. Kiputytto responded in kind in the same location, provoking a devastating series of increasingly virulent plagues (perhaps even magical in nature) that overloaded the curative resources of Asram's various priesthoods and wiped out the entire population in less than a month. Even most of those who escaped the scourged area died soon after of disease. Shortly afterward, Talona won this devastating deific contest and murdered Kiputytto.</blockquote>

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