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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roman" data-source="post: 3459815" data-attributes="member: 1845">The god of destruction also covers concepts such as hatred and indeed the destructive aspects and to a certain extent also chaos (but different forms of chaos are also inherent in some other gods/goddesses, such as reverly). You make a good point about not having a god of creation as a direct counterpart to the god of destruction, though indirect counterparts can be found in the forms of god of life, goddess of love and goddess of revelry (the creative/artistic aspect). Would you say this is a major omission or does the pantheon function coherently and effectively to an outside observer with the creation portfolio parcelled out among several deities?  God of pain covers suffering and various debilitating conditions, for example diseases, and emotions, such as despair, panic and fear. Hmm, although not the original intention, now I am thinking that the god of destruction and god of pain would make a good brother-brother pair in case I do add more gods.  Death and the negative types of afterlife, but also concepts associated with death such as decay, and the negative aspects of cold and winter.  No these are not included in the portfolio of the god of the undead. Yes, looking at it now, undead are a narrow portfolio. My design approach leading to this god was such that I took the concepts such as life and death and thought that the undead are a unique force of equal importance to the other two, so I granted them a separate god, though I was also influenced by the fact that I love using undead as enemies and thought the Church of this god would make a good villain organization for me. But yes, now that I look at it from the perspective of say, potential worshippers, the undead are a narrow portoflio indeed and could potentially be subsumed by the goddess of death. Since the goddess of death and the god of the undead are a 'marital pair' anyway, would you think such a subsumption is necessary in the light of the fact that most of the other gods have broader portfolios, or can the existence of the god of the undead be reasonably justified in the current array of deities? Yes, to all except the fey/trickery/deception/etc. aspects (when I wanted to assign outsiders for every deity, I was actually thinking of turning fey into outsiders of the goddess of revelry). Goddess of nature is my primary candidate for splitting, since she covers so much 'ground'. The prime nominee categories for divestiture would probably be the 'space' sky/sun/stars/moon... aspects and possibly the oceanic/marine aspect, but I am not sure (especially about the latter).  This god is the god of life in the biological sense and I thought also of birth, but you make a good point about his masculinity (to some degree a function of the genders of nouns in the Slovak language), so I will shift birth under the goddess of love. This god is also the releaser of souls into the world.  Craftsmansip, toil, agricultural work, labor, housework, etc., but also of rewards for the work - hence wages.  Yes this is supposed to be the goddess of both the arts and trickery, but also the general hedonistic life. Cooking would probably fit here too, but I would probably place it under the god of work. Remembrance belongs under the god of time.  Debauchery and wild flings belong under revelry. Goddess of love covers love, family and children and I will now shift birth here too.</blockquote>

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