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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Laurefindel" data-source="post: 9547735" data-attributes="member: 67296">Humanoids and monstrous pantheon are based on the assumption that these species are basically mono-cultural across all settings (which kinda make sense if your gods show up saying « that’s who we are, that’s what you are, and that’s how we want you to act »). Moreover, most non-human pantheons double down on their race/species standard D&D identity, which again, makes sense if the gods act as direct influencers of culture.So having a uniformed human pantheon would also assume that the gods have introduced themselves and taught humans, otherwise there would be too much cultural variance - that’s of course assuming that humans are a culturally diverse people. Again, assuming that humans are a culturally diverse people, this pantheon of gods probably presented itself slightly differently to conform to (or engineer) local cultures, possibly interchanging major and minor roles within the pantheon, and changing their names. It would be a pantheon that enjoys (or somehow sees importance in) presenting itself differently to different populations, but there would also be constants.It would also be a relatively unified pantheon, like that of humanoids and monsters, perhaps with one pariah that is nevertheless part of the group, or some bickering/enmities among the group but still working together.Also, humanoids and monstrous pantheon all have leaders that best represent their race/species in a nutshell; that should also be true about the human pantheon, in this case, a representation of the culture. So either the pantheon’s leader is always the same god or goddess  (most historical polytheistic religions had some kind of ‘king of gods’ with a prominent female consort/spouse/equivalent), or different gods and goddesses take on the role of pantheon-leader based on the culture. Either way, there would be some degree of standardization between cultures to conform to the pantheon.As for what it would look like, I’d need to give it more thoughts but the basic assumption would be that the same gods could make culturally diverse pantheons across many settings, but their number would be similar (through in some pantheons, two or three gods could present themselves as a single entity, or each have different aspects of themselves. Hummm)</blockquote>

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