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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 5106238" data-attributes="member: 326">Thats like asking whats the difference between Russians and Ukrainians. The short answer is politics.There doesn't need to be any fundamental mechanical differences between Demon Lords and Deities and I think a lot of the time people get bogged down looking for them. Can people worship demons and devils...of course. Can they worship primordials...it works for the Elder Elemental Eye. Same for Cthulhu and all the rest. Someone brought up the topic of portfolios and I think thats an interesting point. I think if we take a look at Earth's mythology you can clearly have multiple Sun Gods (or whatever) all co-existing. In such cases (which I like to call an open cosmology*) the destruction of such a god won't have far-reaching consequences - though it might cause an eclipse or dark clouds over the land where the god is worshipped. In essence, when you have multiple beings representative of one portfolio, then either they are subordinates (either knowingly or unwittingly) to a more powerful entity which IS 'the Sun', or simply that each such beings 'tap' the portfolio in the same way mages tap magic.*As opposed to a closed cosmology where you have only one figurehead for each portfolio.</blockquote>