Hmmm i wonder if the descripton of the goddes from the devblog had changed uppon arival of that beast. So the poeple believe in the form of the monster while the old skeletal picture remained.
The way it works is as follows:
As long as the Megabeast shares spheres with the god in question, impersonation is possible. The people don't necessarily believe that the demon is the diety's true form, but rather, its earthly body. Just as Zeus' true form was never believed to be a bull, but he turned into one nonetheless to mate with mortals.
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I was at first going to mention when he turned into a golden shower, but decided against it since that was an isolated incident.
As far as I know, he never mated with mortals while being a bull, but there could be some such story I don't know of.
One word.
Minotaur.
Naw, Daedalus had to construct quite the contraption for that woman to do it and she only found herself lusting after the bull after being cursed into it.
Greek Gods>Questionable Latin Somatizing Wizards>Sparkly Vampires>elfsmurf pocahontas from space
rectified
I'd saw the cute animal nose and anime eye'd smurfs aren't worse than sparkly vampires.
Not because of some ranting I feel like doing about everything I hate in the crepuscular books but because dances with smurfs doesn't have the same rabid hordes or people confused about what it really was constantly bringing up their infatuation with it.
EDIT: This actually raises a question:
Will we see odd "partnerships" beyond the concept of non-hetrosexuality? Different species interacting? I know that ThreeToe did a story that had this as one of the main points - Goblin and Elf, if I do remember.
or even gods(true or false) that mate with mortals, fathering potential semi-divine heroes
Demons impersonating gods mating with mortals is more likely, and I would argue even more filled with Win.
I'm picturing a seven legged spider with a human face mark back away from it's head.
A tanuki
Knowing what I do about promiscuous species tanuki win at gang bangs hands down.
Unless maybe if you got a whale involved somehow.