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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vaalingrade" data-source="post: 9504014" data-attributes="member: 82524">I've also gotten milage out of good sects of 'evil' gods who found part of the portfolio useful and ran with it and also pretender gods using good causes to recruit and then indoctrinate.And then there's the interplay of the two.In my setting, there's a god whose cover story is being a god of strength with a Might Makes Right message. The lay folk and even lower priests don't know his actual aims is Phyrexian style compleation and his actual dark priests don't know he intends to destroy the world rather than dominate it.And then there's the trolls. A random troll heard the public pitch about Might Making Right, completely misunderstood, and brough back the message to other trolls that beating strong enemies makes you righteous. Only problem for the bad guy is... the troll was in a region of farming villages beset by bandits. So there's no point in defeating those weak farmers--time to beat up on the bandits and monsters attacking them! And thus was formed the Army of May; a militant faction of trolls dedicated to the primary evil god, dedicated to smacking down anything that threatens the weak and abused, using the powers of the god who secretly wants to murder everyone to do so.There's a lot of interesting storytelling potential to mine here.</blockquote>