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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8399803" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>My campaign uses a mythology loosely based on Norse Mythology + Greyhawk demihuman deities. So Moradin is the forger of Mjolner and so on, the elven gods are the Vaenir. But even amongst the Aesir (human deities) there's gods that are good, evil and in between. Odin has good qualities and bad, being the god of magic and wisdom but also the god of battle and strife. People of all alignments pray for his favor in times of war and curse him equally. Aegir is the god of the sea and storms, so once again people pray for his favor and sacrifice before going out to sea. Of course there's Loki, who is a Jotun.</p><p></p><p>Jotun includes deities (including some that have joined the Aesir such as Skadi), giants and fiends. So we have Jotun gods Thrym and Surtr with their own domains. Avernus and The Abyss are just other domains in Jotunheim. While only the most powerful Jotun attract worshippers the only real difference is that if they have worshippers they have more influence in Midgard (the prime material plane). </p><p></p><p>There are forgotten gods who who only have a limited amount of "reserve" power available that occasionally pop up.</p><p></p><p>So the gods, evil gods and fiends are really more just a classification and what realm they reside in than anything else. Which is useful if I ever want to throw in a new protagonist such as a cult that wants to wake a Jotun deity that Thor had fought long and put into a coma. While a being needs to be powerful, it's really having worshippers that makes it a god.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8399803, member: 6801845"] My campaign uses a mythology loosely based on Norse Mythology + Greyhawk demihuman deities. So Moradin is the forger of Mjolner and so on, the elven gods are the Vaenir. But even amongst the Aesir (human deities) there's gods that are good, evil and in between. Odin has good qualities and bad, being the god of magic and wisdom but also the god of battle and strife. People of all alignments pray for his favor in times of war and curse him equally. Aegir is the god of the sea and storms, so once again people pray for his favor and sacrifice before going out to sea. Of course there's Loki, who is a Jotun. Jotun includes deities (including some that have joined the Aesir such as Skadi), giants and fiends. So we have Jotun gods Thrym and Surtr with their own domains. Avernus and The Abyss are just other domains in Jotunheim. While only the most powerful Jotun attract worshippers the only real difference is that if they have worshippers they have more influence in Midgard (the prime material plane). There are forgotten gods who who only have a limited amount of "reserve" power available that occasionally pop up. So the gods, evil gods and fiends are really more just a classification and what realm they reside in than anything else. Which is useful if I ever want to throw in a new protagonist such as a cult that wants to wake a Jotun deity that Thor had fought long and put into a coma. While a being needs to be powerful, it's really having worshippers that makes it a god. [/QUOTE]
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