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James Jacobs wrote:
Impossibly Diverse wrote:Tradition and respect and honor pretty much.Hi James,
I've got a question regarding the Tian Pantheon. For the most part, they seem to be a loosely defined group of gods, hailing from throughout the outer planes and connected only by being the gods most widely worshiped in Tian Xia. But the parts about Shizuru's authority over them and her punishment of Fumeiyoshi imply that they're a well-defined state-like group ruled by Shizuru and united by something significant enough that they take their membership of the group seriously. So my question is, what unites the gods under Shizuru's authority?
That's not exactly what I meant. How did these gods come to have a distinct set of traditions shared by them but not by any of the other gods? What's stopping Sun Wukong from deciding that while he respects Shizuru's status as Empress of Heaven and thus her authority over the Tian pantheon, he doesn't consider himself part of the Tian pantheon and thus owes her no more obedience by virtue of her imperial status than does Sarenrae?