Is it possible for a deity to grant an alignment domain that DOESN'T match his own alignment?
I'm doing a homebrew campaign currently and one of the gods is a true neutral god of balance. He preaches a lack of extremnes and the pursuit of balance and fairness, even to the point of siding with the forces of evil if it seems good is winning and vice versa. I'm trying to decide on his domains and I though "Wouldn't it be interesting if, in the pursuit of fairness and balance, he offered all the alignment domains?"
For reference, here are the other deities, their alignments and domains.
Luciferus LG Sun, Fire, Law, Good
Argenta CG Madness, Water, Chaos, Good
Lignum NG Plants, Healing, Charm, Good
Inlustrea CN Luck, Void, Liberation, Chaos
Apicus LN Community, Protection, Strength, Law
Extulistim NE Darkness, Earth, Ruins, Evil
Sepulcris N Death, Repose, Rune, (tbd)
Truculenta N Animals, Air, Vermin, (tbd)
Cladiba CE Weather, Destruction, Chaos, Evil
Cognitus CN Artifice, Knowledge, Magic, Chaos
Cartamena LE War, Nobility, Law, Evil
Aurumus LN Travel, Trickery, Glory, Law
I'm trying to go for a balanced approach, where each deity has 4 domains and only the alignment domains overlap. So I suppose in addition to the balance god, I need to come up with domains for those 2 that are each missing one; one is the god of wild things, the other is the god of the dead.
RAW: No, deities only grant alignment domains that match their own alignment.
However, you're the GM of a homebrew, so do whatever you want. I think your idea is very cool, a God that's so about balance that they even balance out balance.
Or for another choice, you could invent a "neutral domain" that had a different sub domain for each alignment.
Good, Evil, Law and Chaos domains are all pretty powerful options, especially depending on class (Warpriest comes to mind).
I would suggest that while a deity be capable of granting all 4, that the character can only select 1 from the good/evil axis and 1 from law/chaos axis. Since other deities usually already offer 1 option form each axis it's no more powerful than normal.
Isn't his whole point to avoid extremes?? Why then would he give those domains?
Even if the plays those roles on ocasion, domains are supposed to represent the esence of the religion. So don't definde the god of centers by a circumference.
(Though it's technicaly possible)
A cleric with two opposing domains might be kind of interesting, though? And more 'balanced' for a supporter of a neutral god than Lawful and Good or whatever.
"I wield the power of Good and Evil - whatever it takes to get the job done."
You could have pretty hilarious results if someone uses holy word or an equivalent spell without matching the alignment of the spell.
Okay, so the neutral gods I could find all had a wide variety of domain, and none seem to emphasize keeping balance. Maybe he grants the elemental domains? Air, Earth, Fire, Water?
Sivanah grants an alignment domain (though only with the subdomain) according to Inner Sea Gods and she is N. So there is some official evidence that N gods can give alignment domains.