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Discussion: Your Own Deities

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  • May 11, 2017

    Ah, for me it's not so much about creating my own deities but bending the ones that exist. A while ago I had a build that...well it was a little twist on Ebonarm that just had him being represented in a sort of different way. I did a similar thing with Crystal-Like-Law but really that was a shitty justification to bring a character from another world into Skyrim so it doesn't really count. But no, I guess I haven't just straight up created my own deity, but I could definitely get bnehind something like that (maybe creating some interesting Altmeri-Nordic pantheons or something like that).

    I suppose pre-ESO (and from what I can tell post-ESO as well) any build that focused on a Redguard Deity was basically creating a brand new on, because if there's anything that Bethesda loves more than glitches it's not giving us information on the Redguard Deities...

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    May 11, 2017

    Phil said:

    Create my own deity? As in completely make one up and insert it into the setting? Blasphemy! :D As others have said, though, if there is the vaguest mention of a something which could be venerated by a character, then I am not adverse to inflating that concept and filling in the gaps to make idea work.

    Also, as may well be the case, the gods and demons that we know are simply greater and lesser spirits which gain power through worship. If a character blieved that and was on a crusade to spread the holy word, even the lowliest rabbit (it could be argued) could potentially be elevated into a greater spirit on par with Akatosh. That is reductionism, but for the sake of contributng to this thread, there it is :D

    Well your reductionism means that my knackered brain can understand it, so it's appreciated!

    That's something I hadn't thought about actually, Whenever I try something like this, I jusitfy it in a way for the god to have always been there - set in stone like the other Aedra and Daedra. But similarly to what I said to Shin, a character who's mission it is is to make a god could be incredible for RP (although it might be hard to convince some massive Orcs to worship a bunny :P).

     

    Dragonborn1721 said:

    Ah, for me it's not so much about creating my own deities but bending the ones that exist. A while ago I had a build that...well it was a little twist on Ebonarm that just had him being represented in a sort of different way. I did a similar thing with Crystal-Like-Law but really that was a shitty justification to bring a character from another world into Skyrim so it doesn't really count. But no, I guess I haven't just straight up created my own deity, but I could definitely get bnehind something like that (maybe creating some interesting Altmeri-Nordic pantheons or something like that).

    I suppose pre-ESO (and from what I can tell post-ESO as well) any build that focused on a Redguard Deity was basically creating a brand new on, because if there's anything that Bethesda loves more than glitches it's not giving us information on the Redguard Deities...

    Trying to figure out how to integrate a new deity into the universe is actually quite a lot of fun, altering a deity is just one step below it. In fact, altering a deity to such an extent that you basically just created a new one is how I got the idea in the first place.

    Ah yes, the Redguard pantheon, possibly the most frustrated I ever got when looking into lore for the first time was when I found this (and that's saying something, ES lore is confusing), I just want to know more about Tall Papa dammit!