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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 3461848" data-attributes="member: 1125">Personally I like the set up in which there is a God of Destruction but no 'established opposing force'. This suggests to me that 'Order and Creation' is the transcendent natural state of the cosmos and thus reflected in all the gods (ie the split 'creation portfolio').Destruction is an abberation, a being that exists in opposition to the 'Natuiral State', a true enemy of All ThingsPersonally I'd look at combining the god of pain and the god of undead into some kind of god of Torment (ie undead are tormented souls) and within this put things like disease, madness and thus abberations etc. Marrying Torment to Death has some synergy&nbsp;I like the Seasonal set up which Arkhandus suggested and the earth/water - air/fire set up you suggest here as a marital pair they remain bound so nature can remain a single entity. You could also present them a a single double-faced-god, both male and female in one form, which aspect is invoked would depend on which aspect of nature is of interest (the masculine or the feminine)You might also get some interesting cultural developments from this (what if all Druids are tranvestites (ie males acculturated as female) - this is a common practice amongst 'Shaman' in SE Asia so its not too farfetched)&nbsp;What about combining the god of Mind with the god of Work to create a god of both 'scholars, artists and artisans' who creates 'great works'. I can see him married to the goddess of magic who you could also exapnd to be a goddess of inspiration, music (bards), wisdom, the hearth and mothercraftThat suggests another symbolic set: Maiden (Revelry)-Mother (Magic) -Crone (Death) all unified as the daughters of Double-faced Nature god/ess</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 3461848, member: 1125"] Personally I like the set up in which there is a God of Destruction but no 'established opposing force'. This suggests to me that 'Order and Creation' is the transcendent natural state of the cosmos and thus reflected in all the gods (ie the split 'creation portfolio'). Destruction is an abberation, a being that exists in opposition to the 'Natuiral State', a true enemy of All Things Personally I'd look at combining the god of pain and the god of undead into some kind of god of Torment (ie undead are tormented souls) and within this put things like disease, madness and thus abberations etc. Marrying Torment to Death has some synergy I like the Seasonal set up which Arkhandus suggested and the earth/water - air/fire set up you suggest here as a marital pair they remain bound so nature can remain a single entity. You could also present them a a single double-faced-god, both male and female in one form, which aspect is invoked would depend on which aspect of nature is of interest (the masculine or the feminine) You might also get some interesting cultural developments from this (what if all Druids are tranvestites (ie males acculturated as female) - [I]this is a common practice amongst 'Shaman' in SE Asia so its not too farfetched[/I]) What about combining the god of Mind with the god of Work to create a god of both 'scholars, artists and artisans' who creates 'great works'. I can see him married to the goddess of magic who you could also exapnd to be a goddess of inspiration, music (bards), wisdom, the hearth and mothercraft That suggests another symbolic set: Maiden (Revelry)-Mother (Magic) -Crone (Death) all unified as the daughters of Double-faced Nature god/ess [/QUOTE]

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