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I need some help choosing Domains for deities for my homebrew world. I apologize in advance if this is the wrong forum, as I was debating between this and the homebrew forum, but I am specifically looking for advice.
A little background: Back in 2002 I bought the 3.0 version of Deities & Demigods. I really liked the concept of a dualistic pantheon consisting of only two gods. I created a world based on the conflict between a lawful god & a chaotic one, and have adapted it to 3.5, 4.0, and now I am adapting it for Pathfinder.
I like to set the world within the system's existing universe, so in this case the world & its gods exists alongside Golarion (though of course far distant in space. Maybe another galaxy)
So, god #1, Xenozoe, is the lawful, associated with eternity, stasis, finality, hierarchy, civilization. He favors undead servants, especially ghosts & other incorporeals. He dwells on the Negative Energy plane (one of the few deities to do so). My tentative list of domains for him:
Death (Undead)
Repose (Ancestors, Souls)
Law (Loyalty)
Knowledge (Memory)
Void (Isolation)
Now, my problem here is that I feel that the Repose and Death domains do not offer enough variety for my players; I'm essentailly giving them a major deity with only 4 domain choices instead of the usual 5. I was thinking of replacing Repose with Nobility and shifting around subdomains, but I might want to avoid that.
I decided that, besides being opposed to each other, the two major deities would have a minor deity or demigod that was similar to it, but poached its worshippers.
For Xenozoe, the demigod I settled on is Blood Emperor Ruithvein, an infernal duke & vampire with only a blurb in some splatbooks. He has no given domains, so I was considering these:
Law (Tyranny)
Evil (Corruption)
Nobility (Aristocracy)
Darkness (Night)
My dilemma here is, if I give Ruithvein Nobility he will overlap with Xenozoe on two domains.
So the advice I would like here is: Should I give Xenozoe another domain instead of Death or Repose? If so what should it be? If it should be Nobility, should I have him overlap with Ruithvein or change Ruithvein's list. Finally, Ruithvein is an Infernal Duke, despite being a vampire, and hell-based deities always have the devil subdomain. Should I switch out corruption or tyranny for devil, or am I ok as it is?
We're not done though.
God #2 is the literal spirit of the world, with not only one name. It represent the riotous aspect of life, overflowing divesity of species, etc. The map I've always used also has a lot of water (more than earth) so the world spirit has an aquatic aspect. My first list for it is:
Chaos (Revelry)
Water (Ocean)
Animal (Feather, Fur)
Plant (Growth)
Weather (Seasons)
My problem with the world spirit, similar to Xenozoe, is that Weather & Water have a lot of overlap. I would like recommendations for possible changes. The elemental domains are fine choices but I feel like I would have to take all of them if I take something more than water, and I want to stick to the 5 domain for a major deity paradigm. Also, the World Spirit's antagonistic minor deity has the Earth domain.
I apologize for the long post but any advice would be very helpful.
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Look up animal and terrain domains, and give one of those as an option to the world spirit(his favoured animal probably), and give the chaotic antagonistic spirit four of the terrain domains to make it 5 for him. For Xenozoe I would look at the new book "Heroes of the Streets" where some urban domains/subdomains were added and give him whichever of those you feel fit him best.
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Pharasma has both Death and Repose as two of her five domains, so I think that should be okay. Keep in mind that the alignment domains aren't really the most exciting, but every aligned deity has alignment domains taking up one or two of their domain slots. It works out alright, I think.
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Look up animal and terrain domains, and give one of those as an option to the world spirit(his favoured animal probably), and give the chaotic antagonistic spirit four of the terrain domains to make it 5 for him. For Xenozoe I would look at the new book "Heroes of the Streets" where some urban domains/subdomains were added and give him whichever of those you feel fit him best.
Thank you, I had completely missed those domains. I may not follow your advice exactly, but I will likely replace the Weather Domain with the Jungle Domain.