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Neverlight

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[40d] Nameless Deity
« on: March 16, 2009, 08:03:47 am »
I decided to export map data from one of my worlds so that I could look over what gods everyone worshiped, and I came across this:

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The Rapid Tombs, Dwarves
 Worship List
  Doren, deity: metals, minerals
  Asmel Treasurewayward the Luxurious Wealths, deity: wealth, trade
  Enor Violetblueness the Earth of Rocks, deity: jewels
  Stodir Cradlecombats, deity: fortresses, war, victory
  Etur Playcopper, deity: mountains, games
  Lim Mothersmiled the Embraced Skirt, deity: love
  Bothon Puzzlingwhispers, deity: dusk
  , deity: order, fire, the sun
  Zalud Spryclean, deity: fertility
  Icum Fairdivine the Pure Right of Loving, deity: charity
  Nesteth the Wondrous Love, deity: children, pregnancy, marriage
  Zekrim, deity: depravity, consolation

Going into Legends reveals that the nameless god is male, and I've started up some fortresses and gotten dwarves who worship him.

I would expect this sort of thing from a god of chaos, not order  :)
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Lord Dullard

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Re: [40d] Nameless Deity
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2009, 02:45:43 pm »
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Lim Mothersmiled the Embraced Skirt, deity: love

Hahaha.
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Re: [40d] Nameless Deity
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2009, 03:42:10 pm »
He must have burned out and, being so orderly, promptly removed himself from existence.

I would actually consider it a feature to occasionally have a single deity with no name.  If it happened frequently, or there were 2 in a single world it would be a bug.  Fantasy religion often has a an unamed or unamable deity.  Even RL human religions have trouble deciding on names for some entities.
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Re: [40d] Nameless Deity
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2009, 07:29:57 am »
Quote from: Veroule on March 17, 2009, 03:42:10 pm
I would actually consider it a feature to occasionally have a single deity with no name.  If it happened frequently, or there were 2 in a single world it would be a bug.  Fantasy religion often has a an unamed or unamable deity.  Even RL human religions have trouble deciding on names for some entities.

Except that this is obviously an unintentional effect, and is therefore a bug. That doesn't mean it isn't kind of neat, and Toady might want to *purposefully* include it - but he probably wants to know what's wrong with the code, first.
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