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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 6945717" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Honestly, I love more write-ups for monstrous deities because the religions of the various races are fairly important to the cultures of all my races. The fact that Humans have 13 gods compared to the 2-5 of everyone else means they are the most obviously religious, building massive cathedrals and the like with the various churches competing. Corellon being a deity of War and Art who believes heavily in protecting the natural world is why my elves were militaristic and attempting to conquer the world, so they could protect it.The tension between Gruumsh and Luthic in my world is the source of a lot of conflict for my orcs, who are either heavily traditionalist or secretly subverting the established order to progress the orcs forward.ect.And, you know, saying that all members of a race follow this god and belief in that god means they usually do X or Y doesn't mean you can't have exceptions. But it does give you a baseline to think about them and how they might view the world. Saying "Everyone is a complex blend of emotions and beliefs, sometimes corresponding to certain deities and sometimes breaking with that to worship other deities, while still existing together usually in some version of unity, though occasionally conflict." is certainly more realistic and closer to the truth, but it doesn't give me anything to start with. You can't break from the norm if you don't know what the norm is, and I don't think they need to spell out in every single entry that you are free to break from the norm and have them worship, believe and act differently.</blockquote>

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