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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8728504" data-attributes="member: 29398">A few more questions:What does each deity represent within the society of its worshippers?  That is to say, is the deity strongly associated with a specific area of life or society (e.g. the sun, home-and-hearth, war, music, etc.) or is its influence more broad-based (e.g. nature, an entire culture, an entire element, etc.) or is its area of influence, in effect, everything (i.e. a monotheistic set-up)?Determining this will greatly inform who within a society is most likely to worship each deity either exclusively or as part of the overall pantheon, and to some extent what form said worship might take.What does each deity represent in the greater universe? That is to say, in a universal sense does a deity represent or look after something specific (e.g. time, Dwarves, females, water, etc.) or is it more generalist; also, is a deity hard-tied to a specific alignment or ethos? (or taken a step further, is a deity the divine embodiment of its alignment?)What is each deity's "place" in the greater universe? That is to say, how does each deity relate to/with all the other deities both within its own pantheon (if applicable) and externally? Are they all just different aspects of one or a few (e.g. is the deity your Elf calls Corellon in fact just a well-disguised aspect of some other deity?), or are they all truly independent beings? Where does each deity fit on the divine pecking order - which ones are more powerful than others, or are they all the same?The above questions are, I think, best sorted out in reverse order when designing one's own cosmology - figure out the universal stuff first then fine-tune it to determine how it's all seen and-or interacted with by each society in your setting.</blockquote>

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