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And continuing the D&D theme, here's another question mostly for Shadow but which anyone can generally answer:

If you were a player or a DM trying to come up with a god to slot into the Seldarine (the elf pantheon, for those who don't know) who mostly has the same sort of ideology as the 4e version of Pelor ("Protect the weak, help the helpless, smite the shit out of evil"), and you decided you wanted them to be a child of Corellon (the god of art and magic who created the elves in the first place, and head of the elf pantheon), would you be more inclined to make that god male or female?

Because it occurred to me while playing around with the Dex-based Elf Paladin idea that there really aren't any good elf gods for more traditional Paladins. They're a bit too "pansy" in general, with all of the really good "SMITE THE SHIT OUT OF EVIL" gods kind of being tied way too strongly to human culture. So I was sort of making a "Pelor, but not really Pelor" sort of god of protection in my head, but couldn't decide if it should be Corellon's son or Corellon's daughter.

(and since I already sort of have a name in mind for the god, it sort of influences whether or not I go with the more masculine -il or more feminine -iel as a suffix on the name to imply gender)



Also, as a complete aside (well, not a complete aside, it sort of ties into the whole worldbuilding thing we were talking about), before I started thinking about working out the Paladin in my head, I was thinking about the idea of constructing an entire fantasy calendar and zodiac based on different assumptions (namely, a universal 30-day month model with each month consisting of three "tendays", with solstices and equinoxes as separate days, ignoring the unaccounted for 1.25 days because fuck it, it's not Earth).

Granted, I know this isn't even remotely an original idea (most of that is actually how the Faerun calendar works, for one thing), but what mostly spurred me off on the idea was basically making a zodiac where every sign was a reference to some facet of my previous gaming life, with 30+ years worth of ideas to pull out of.

So, for example, one of the zodiac signs would represent Amber DRPG, since I played a ton of that. And one of my PCs from that was basically akin to what is an Arcane Archer in D&D, so now she's a Sagittarius-like zodiac sign called "The Huntress". Meanwhile, from my time playing White Wolf I took my one Changeling character, and since she was a Sidhe who fought with a rapier, now she's The Swordmaiden (since that's actually a term I used to refer to her by when I was playing her). And so on and so forth.

And I was basically thinking about this in spite of knowing I'm literally never going to use it in a game or as backstory for a novel or whatever. It's just random musing that will never go anywhere, which exists solely because I have more creativity bursting the seams of my brain than I ever really get to use these days.


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