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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 5331935" data-attributes="member: 2209">In addition to having multiple pantheons I like having overlapping deities.In Hyboria for example I think it is Derketa who is a death goddess in one country and a fertility goddess in another.In my Ptolus one the Holy Lothian Empire classified Tiamat as the Hound of Hell, aligned with the devils, master of Abishai and guarding the first layer of hell (lifted from 1e Manual of the Planes). To the old god pantheon she was the primordial mother of dragons (Greyhawk pantheon using 1e MM view). To the new god pantheon she was the goddess of dragons (using an FR and 3e view of her as deific). To the new fusion of old and new god religion (4e) she is a goddess of greed. To one of the eastern pantheons she is Takhisis the dark lady and chief evil goddess (Dragonlance pantheon). In Uraq she is generally the primordial sea dragon who gave birth to monsters and gods and who warred upon the gods until slain by Marduk who used her corpse to make the world (Mesopotamian Pantheon). There is also a splinter sect of Uraq who see her as an benevolent earth mother creator (from descriptions in Lore of the Gods).Similarly Bane is a mortal ascended god of the new Gods (FR) who might or might not be dead or reborn out of his son. Similarly he might have always been an immortal god of war who commands Maglubiyet (4e). Or he might be just another name for Ares (Greek pantheon I use for a set of islands including Freeport).Lots of room for interfaith connections, intrafaith conflict, and mystery about the actual nature of the gods.</blockquote>

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