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<blockquote data-quote="CRGreathouse" data-source="post: 3255167" data-attributes="member: 474"><p>I rather agree -- we each design our own worlds, that's why we're DMing. Still, I'm interested in how everyone addresses the issues, because they might do it better or at least give me ideas. I think that everyone discussing it can benefit.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I can explain the greater gods, if it would help. Ra, NG god of life and the sun, opposes the existence of undead as an abomination: the undead pervert the natural order and break the life-death cycle. Hades, NE god of the underworld, hates the creation of undead because they are literally stealing souls from his kingdom. This leads to a curious cooperation between these diametrically-opposed* deities.</p><p></p><p>I don't think that this sort of conflict is rare, although perhaps not often this pronounced. Perhaps a pantheon has a god of light and of darkness; if these are of differing powers, why does the stronger one suffer the weaker to live? (Perhaps it does not, and is in the process of killing the weaker now; but often this is not the case.)</p><p></p><p>* On paper, anyway. Hades is actually not very evil at all, but is sufficiently self-centered that he qualifies. Ra is something of a paragon of good; he was once (as a demigod) the high priest of a very powerful, now-dead LG greater god.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CRGreathouse, post: 3255167, member: 474"] I rather agree -- we each design our own worlds, that's why we're DMing. Still, I'm interested in how everyone addresses the issues, because they might do it better or at least give me ideas. I think that everyone discussing it can benefit. I can explain the greater gods, if it would help. Ra, NG god of life and the sun, opposes the existence of undead as an abomination: the undead pervert the natural order and break the life-death cycle. Hades, NE god of the underworld, hates the creation of undead because they are literally stealing souls from his kingdom. This leads to a curious cooperation between these diametrically-opposed* deities. I don't think that this sort of conflict is rare, although perhaps not often this pronounced. Perhaps a pantheon has a god of light and of darkness; if these are of differing powers, why does the stronger one suffer the weaker to live? (Perhaps it does not, and is in the process of killing the weaker now; but often this is not the case.) * On paper, anyway. Hades is actually not very evil at all, but is sufficiently self-centered that he qualifies. Ra is something of a paragon of good; he was once (as a demigod) the high priest of a very powerful, now-dead LG greater god. [/QUOTE]
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