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<blockquote data-quote="Kobu" data-source="post: 3939038" data-attributes="member: 12434">You may have misunderstood my first post. I'm a little more ambivalent about the greater demons/devils since they aren't as far off from their base. I'd still prefer original names, especially as they stray farther from their origins.The 1e version of Tiamat wasn't that far from its roots as I recall. It has gotten farther though. I wish I had the 1st Deities and Demigods book here to reference. The whole thing with Io (an FR reference?) splitting is just bizarre though, especially considering that Tiamat is the one who was split in two.The pairing with Bahamut is also way out there. I could understand Marduk--he was represented as a dragon! And fought Tiamat! Bahamut isn't even a god in mythology as far as I know and is from a whole other culture. Did someone just mix the names up and go with it ever since?Those were collaborations, not just a borrowings. Any differences were not intentional but caused by no one wanting to strictly define those things. Descriptions were intentionally vague in keeping with the mythos. As a collaboration, the mythos stories were also meant to exist together in the same shared universe. I see no problem there.An example of what I am taking issue with would be having Cthulhu show up as an ocean god in Eberron represented as a kraken. You can sort of see where it came from, but it's far from the origin. It makes no sense to call this god &quot;Cthulhu&quot; even though that was the inspirational source.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kobu, post: 3939038, member: 12434"] You may have misunderstood my first post. I'm a little more ambivalent about the greater demons/devils since they aren't as far off from their base. I'd still prefer original names, especially as they stray farther from their origins. The 1e version of Tiamat wasn't that far from its roots as I recall. It has gotten farther though. I wish I had the 1st Deities and Demigods book here to reference. The whole thing with Io (an FR reference?) splitting is just bizarre though, especially considering that Tiamat is the one who was split in two. The pairing with Bahamut is also way out there. I could understand Marduk--he was represented as a dragon! And fought Tiamat! Bahamut isn't even a god in mythology as far as I know and is from a whole other culture. Did someone just mix the names up and go with it ever since? Those were collaborations, not just a borrowings. Any differences were not intentional but caused by no one wanting to strictly define those things. Descriptions were intentionally vague in keeping with the mythos. As a collaboration, the mythos stories were also meant to exist together in the same shared universe. I see no problem there. An example of what I am taking issue with would be having Cthulhu show up as an ocean god in Eberron represented as a kraken. You can sort of see where it came from, but it's far from the origin. It makes no sense to call this god "Cthulhu" even though that was the inspirational source. [/QUOTE]

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