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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8399820" data-attributes="member: 2209">For a D&Dized polytheistic the gods vs demons approach I highly suggest checking out 4e's cosmology such as in the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/145326/Demonomicon-4e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">4e Demonomicon</a>. First there is the gods vs primordials as the base with the elemental and non-divine primordials being contrasted with and eventually defeated by the divine gods in the Dawn War. The Primordials were on the level of the gods and in some of the lore could not be killed but only contained. Then you have the creation of the Abyss and demons and demon lords as evil corruptions of the Elemental Chaos, elementals, and Primordials, by the Shard of Evil at the heart of the Abyss, so the demon lords are evil-warped and powered up primordial immortal non-divine beings on the level of the gods.The goddess of prophecy had to sacrifice herself, her soul, her sanity, her reputation, and her divine being to become Lolth and create the demonwebs to contain the Abyss.All the gods feel that the demons are an existential threat to the cosmos and so the gods are united against them despite internal differences.The devils whole job is to fight and contain the demons, and the gods tolerate them despite their corruption to evil and Asmodeus's deicide because of that mission and contracts Asmodeus has with the gods to engage in the Blood War against the demons.Lots of cool D&D stuff with a difference between the gods and demons and an ongoing war of the heavens versus the Abyss.This is the Conan and Gray Mouser influence. Conan was more ancient world polytheism based with a mix of historical and made up gods and that was the default template that was being riffed off of.</blockquote>

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