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Seems like there ought be more evil gods...
But that is probably just my opinion.
Interesting choice to make Ra LN instead of LG. What was the thought behind that choice, may I ask?The Block Knight is pretty much spot-on with the choices behind the deities and their alignments, domains, and so forth. I go into more detail about the design challenges of this pantheon in the foreword to Pathfinder #80, but beyond the things The Block Knight mentioned, I also had to make sure the Ancient Osirian deities also fit in with the core 20 Golarion deities. For example, what do you do with Anubis when Pharasma is already the goddess of death, or Ra when you have Sarenrae as the sun goddess? Not to mention the fact that the Ancient Egyptians had way more than 20 gods, and that many of them changed over time (or even absorbed other gods who had previously been distinct entities).
In the end, I had to make the choices that felt right and did what we needed to do within the setting, and when dealing with actual historical entities, there's no way that everyone will be happy with every choice made. But I did my best, and I'm looking forward to people's comments when they get the chance to read the full article!
I look forward to reading that forward. When I first joined PFS a number of years ago, I was immediately drawn to the Osirion culture because it so closely paralleled what I enjoyed of ancient Egyptian culture. I do like what has been done for the Old Gods Pantheon, but must profess two disappointments.
The first is Horus. He was the god of retribution and vengeance, but I see he is once again designed more or less as "Ra's Heir". Since Ra was designed into this Pantheon, I am having trouble understanding why Horus was changed to be Ra's twin.
The second is Maat's weapon. I was looking forward to seeing more traditional Egyptian/Osirian weapons for this group an seeing the Varisian Star Knife for yet another deity is a bit of a let down to me.
I am very pleased to see a variety of the lesser known deities included, Selket aka Sekher, has always been an interesting study for me.
As already mentioned multiple times, this particular pantheon is difficult to nail down simply because it did change so often, each Dynasty, and even each region, had their own take on the mythos. So please feel free to take my observations with a grain of salt, after all I am a bit biased... :)
With that said, thank you everyone a Paizo for the wonderful work and I look forward to this Adventure Path.