Condensed list of deities

[Havard]

Cool! I like leaving the dwarf/elf/peshwa god names in just because I like the argument that they are really exactly the same gods with just a different name. Mostly cause that simplifies things a little and adds a little more variety/detail to the combined deity. But I can see your point.

Actually what I meant was that we remove those deities who are exclusively worshipped by demi-humans, not those who in this version are assumed to be different identities of the same deity.

Hersh and a few others were tough to place. I agree that he’s not evil, and elgath certainly isn’t evil. The difficulty is how to define the split between dark lords and greater gods. At first I was looking at the evil vs good paradigm, same as you, but that’s tricky, and the “neautral” alignments (which change from the d20 to 4e books anyway) are really problematic.

So then I started to look at it as chaos vs. law rather than good vs evil. That seemed to make a little more sense to me but really fit when I discovered that the EPT gods are also organized into two groups as gods of Change vs gods of Stability.
So Hersh and Elgath seemed like they would be aligned with the forces of change/chaos rather than the forces of law/stability.

I’m now going with linking Faunus with Korzuun and yoosef as Greater gods/stability; whereas Elgath/Sylvian I put with change/chaos.

This is an interesting way of looking at it. OTOH, the term Dark Lord does suggest something more sinister than just "change". At the same time Greater Gods is a fairly open category which could be an argument for including the neutrals here.

Going by canon, Elgath is actually a fairly monstrous deity, possibly even linked to the Egg of Coot. I changed him to be a human name for Faunus, which would make him more sympathetic. I dont like the Egg of Coot connection so I simply dismissed it. Sylvain OTOH seems more light hearted, though he is ambitious.

Thanatos as Id – that’s interesting. I had just remembered the entry in the Ordo Elementarum write ups about the Tempus Abbatis and was planing to add it to the Id description. Was thinking the the egg and the Tempus Abbatis. Were both manifestations of Id. I’m not sure if Thanatos really fits as the “father” of those two given the technology angle, but maybe Thanatos is yet another kind of Id manifestation?

It depends on your take on the Egg of Coot. In my interpretation the technological aspect of the Egg is very much toned down (Necro-tech). I dont remember the term Tempus Abbatis? Remember that Thanatos is responsible for the death of Temrin, the God of Time.

Anyway, let me know what you think, especially in regards to whether you divide it up as good vs evil or chaos vs law and how that affects the list.

Sorry it took me a while to get back to this. Hope you haven't forgotten about it

-Havard