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[Shadowclaimer]

Deities should have randomized physical properties. The Dwarven God of Water for instance could be "In some depictions he has two heads spitting water and four arms holding jars." etc. its a minor thing that would really make the descriptions of deities fancier.

[Adrian]

Why stop there?
A deity associated with agriculture could be embodied as a sentient mass of plant matter, fertilizing the land it walks on.
One associated with muck and disease could be a living cloud of miasma, toxic to those that aren't believers.

Slap some appropriate syndromes and interactions on them and deities can be awesome.
Regular deer gods are boring.

[Shadowclaimer]

Why stop there?
A deity associated with agriculture could be embodied as a sentient mass of plant matter, fertilizing the land it walks on.
One associated with muck and disease could be a living cloud of miasma, toxic to those that aren't believers.

Slap some appropriate syndromes and interactions on them and deities can be awesome.
Regular deer gods are boring.

I was just going for the simple easy 5 minutes of code add, but yea, down the line I'd like to see it branched out way more awesomely =)

[Cobbler89]

What if the same deity could appear differently to different civilizations? Say, there's a god of war, but the northerners also associate him with the ice of winter as well and he appears as a frost giant to them, whereas the tropical islanders also associate him with (poisonous) berries and suicide and he appears as a voodoo assassin to them? (Of course, he'd probably need name variations in those different cultures too, but that would arguably be part of expanding races' languages.)

[Shadowclaimer]

What if the same deity could appear differently to different civilizations? Say, there's a god of war, but the northerners also associate him with the ice of winter as well and he appears as a frost giant to them, whereas the tropical islanders also associate him with (poisonous) berries and suicide and he appears as a voodoo assassin to them? (Of course, he'd probably need name variations in those different cultures too, but that would arguably be part of expanding races' languages.)

That'd be really cool too, each race gets a different depiction of him and refers to him differently.

[Starmantis]

Depictions of the same deity could also change over time

[Dunamisdeos]

Yeah, I don't know. That's how you end with sh-- like this...

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The Deity BeardDeer has come! There's a tree growing out of it's head and it has eyes like a goddam human being. Beware it's crazy lipstick.

This deity is associated with I don't even know what.