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<blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 8400894" data-attributes="member: 63508"><p>One thing I was toying with in the divine realm of my setting is it's time of the day deities. Basically the god of the Sun would have 6 sons, 5 with the goddess of Change and 1 with the goddess of the Moon. They would become the main elf and orc male gods.</p><p></p><p>Midnight</p><p>Dawn</p><p>Morning</p><p>Noon</p><p>Dusk</p><p>Night</p><p>(Solar) Eclipse</p><p></p><p>Midnight and Night would be evil as evil darkness gods, unable to control the sun. Dusk is the good darkness god.. Midnight would take evil orcs under his wing and bless them with darkvision. Dusk and Night would fight over drow, Dusk taking good drow and Night evil drow.</p><p></p><p>The main conflict between the brothers, their wives, and their children is control of the Sun. They all wish to become the new sun deity as the Sun (as well and the Moon and Earth) have gone into deep slumber. They all struggle for control over the Sun's body.</p><p></p><p>Midnight and Night both encourage their priests and cults to do "block the sun" rituals. This is technically under Eclipse's purview. To use his power the other darkness deities contrort their religions to the protection of lycantropes and shifters, Eclipse's favored races.</p><p></p><p>This is before you get to Eclipse's sisters the 8 phases of the moon. All but New Moon is okay with the evil Night and Midnight and their plan for endless night as they would become the principle light deities then. The moon goddesses are very cozy with Night and Midnight (Night's wife, the Sin demon of Lust, doesn't mind) So many humans see them as evil.</p><p></p><p>Then you have (Lunar) Eclipse, the "union" of the Moon and Mother Earth. That jerk is like "why do we need light at all?" and "Oh you think darkness is your ally". Earth and Moon got drunk and spawned this nutcase who is like "Seeing things is for LOSERS!" and "Yall live in the Underdark anyway!". So he and his sister Underdark want the surface to be pitch black and are attempting to gaslight the Fungus Lord and the Jellyfish Nonbinary Leadership Figure into pacts with them for underground bioluminescence.</p><p></p><p>All and all, the evil sun, moon, and earth gods serve to display the day and night cycle and put the diurnal and nocturnal races in conflict.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Minigiant, post: 8400894, member: 63508"] One thing I was toying with in the divine realm of my setting is it's time of the day deities. Basically the god of the Sun would have 6 sons, 5 with the goddess of Change and 1 with the goddess of the Moon. They would become the main elf and orc male gods. Midnight Dawn Morning Noon Dusk Night (Solar) Eclipse Midnight and Night would be evil as evil darkness gods, unable to control the sun. Dusk is the good darkness god.. Midnight would take evil orcs under his wing and bless them with darkvision. Dusk and Night would fight over drow, Dusk taking good drow and Night evil drow. The main conflict between the brothers, their wives, and their children is control of the Sun. They all wish to become the new sun deity as the Sun (as well and the Moon and Earth) have gone into deep slumber. They all struggle for control over the Sun's body. Midnight and Night both encourage their priests and cults to do "block the sun" rituals. This is technically under Eclipse's purview. To use his power the other darkness deities contrort their religions to the protection of lycantropes and shifters, Eclipse's favored races. This is before you get to Eclipse's sisters the 8 phases of the moon. All but New Moon is okay with the evil Night and Midnight and their plan for endless night as they would become the principle light deities then. The moon goddesses are very cozy with Night and Midnight (Night's wife, the Sin demon of Lust, doesn't mind) So many humans see them as evil. Then you have (Lunar) Eclipse, the "union" of the Moon and Mother Earth. That jerk is like "why do we need light at all?" and "Oh you think darkness is your ally". Earth and Moon got drunk and spawned this nutcase who is like "Seeing things is for LOSERS!" and "Yall live in the Underdark anyway!". So he and his sister Underdark want the surface to be pitch black and are attempting to gaslight the Fungus Lord and the Jellyfish Nonbinary Leadership Figure into pacts with them for underground bioluminescence. All and all, the evil sun, moon, and earth gods serve to display the day and night cycle and put the diurnal and nocturnal races in conflict. [/QUOTE]
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