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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8401514" data-attributes="member: 6915329">What's actually funny is that if you really look at the Orcish pantheon, it's not a hugely evil one. Gruumsh is the creator god, whose goal is for his people to be fruitful and multiply--and so he gave them the ability to survive in inhospitable places. Baghtru is a god of loyalty and strength. Ilneval is a god of tactics. Luthic is a goddess of fertility, medicine, and hearth and home. Shargaas and Yurtus are evil, but they're a plausible evil because they represent things that orcs fear--darkness and disease (I think Shargaas should mean that orcs shouldn't have darkvision, or else they wouldn't need to fear the dark enough to have a god that embodies it). It's not a realistic pantheon--it could use gods of the hunt (I assume orcs are carnivores) and either the sun or more likely the moon, to chase away Shargaas' darkness, and maybe a crafts or smith god--but the first four gods are only evil because orcs are "always evil."The drow pantheon, however, is cartoonishly evil in places.</blockquote>