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Maybe this gets answered in Planar Adventures, maybe it doesn't, might as well make a thread and speculate.
1st question: So there's about 20 planes that aren't called demiplanes. (4 elemental, 2 energy, material/shadow/first, ethereal/astral, 9 alignment)
But are these planes considered major to everyone or just from the perspective of Golarion?
If its the latter, are these planes only significant due to the Golarion worshiping the gods living there?
If it's the former, then I have nitpick. There's a discrepancy on the amount of gods in different planes. Evil deities don't strike me as the sort to cohabitate with each other.
2nd question: Some forum posters have noted that there's a large number of evil deities. But most of them are demigods and are killable by PCs by normal means.(Archaekek wasn't meant to have a statblock)
The number of roughly 270 Evil deities vs 98 Good deities, drops drastically to 31 Evil true deities vs 29 Good deities. I'm going to make a rather large assumption, but from what I understand, most of the good-aligned deities stay in the good planes. Whereas the evil deities are relatively spread out and not associated with each other.
There's only demon true deity in The Abyss, that's Lamashtu, and unless any stronger Qlippoths appear, a good majority of the Abyss seems up for grabs for any real deity to stroll in and take over. It's not like Lamashtu has any reason to protect other demon lords, unless she prefers fighting demons over other creatures.
How about Abaddon. The thing that strikes me is that it seems Urgathoa and Zyphus are living in the Horsemen's realm, even though they are true deities and the horsemen are just 4 demigods. Sure, I can maybe see that Urgathoa or Zyphus doesn't have aspirations to own a plane. But how did it come to be that 4 demigods own an entire plane, but the Abyss is shared by countless demigods. Does Urgathoa keep trespassers out in exchange for territory?
3rd question:
Hell - Asmodeus, Archaekek, Minderhal (3)
Abaddon - Urgathoa, Zyphus (2)
Abyss - Lamashtu (1)
Axis - Norgorber (1)
Material - Rovagug, Ydersius, Nhimbaloth, Nyalathotep, Shub-Niggurath, Yog-Sothoth (6)
Ethereal - Camazots, Ghlauder (2)
Shadow - Zon-Kuthon (1)
??? - Lissala, Dhalavei, Droskar, Dahak, Urazra, Scal, Sicva, Ulon, Fumeiyoshi, General Susumu, Lao Shu Po, Yaezhing, Apep, Set (14)
Where exactly do these other deities live. I listed evil deities because I can imagine they don't play nicely with other people by nature of their alignment. Norgorber's realm surprised me.
4th question:
Are pantheons really more or less just cliques for Gods. When the Osirian Pantheon shifted their focus away from Golarion due to their worship falling out of favour, was it a group effort that they all moved or just something that each of them gradually did, independent of each other. Or like the Elven, Vudrani, Tian Xia pantheons, are they like a group package in that they interact mostly solely with each other. Just like how the Dwarven Pantheon keeps to themselves, letting Torag do most of the interactions outside of the group.
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1) Major is a specific thing, it has no bearing on how may Dieties might live there.
2) The Horsemen invited Urgathoa and Zyphus as guests. And if it comes down to a fight of Deity vs Demigod the Deity deosn't auto-win, they have plenty of reasons to be wary of Demigods.
3) Lissala doesn't have a plane
Dhalavei, Hell? That's where Asura usually are from
Droskar is in the Abyss
Dahak Hell
Urazra ??
Scal, Sicva, and Ulon were just revelaed, we have no information other than what was in the Azlanti pantheon article.
Fumeiyoshi, given that he's associated with Oni it's possible he's on the Material Plane, though he could just as easily reside in Abaddon or Hell
General Susumu, most likely Hell
Lao Shu Po I'm guessing Abaddon
Yaezhing Hell
Apep and Set? Probably where their alignments put them.
4) Pantheons were determined by what worshipers in the area most worshiped and inter-grained into their culture.
1st question: Given how fundamental they are, I would imagine that they're major to everybody. However, remember that the planes are enormous. Cataloging all the gods that live on each would be impractical at best. The evil gods get more mention because conflict in general gets more mention. I do not think that necessarily implies that there are more evil gods than good (though there might actually be, I don't know).
2nd question: Remember that the planes are aligned and in many cases partially sentient. There's not really a whole lot of deities that would WANT to live in Abbadon, so there's not much competition for real estate per se.