From Erastil's entry in the "Deities" section of the 2e playtest rulebook:
Old Deadeye is god of family, farming, hunting,and trade. Long ago he was a horned god of the hunt, but his worship evolved to focus on rural communities.
Emphasis mine.
From the Wikipedia page "Cernunnos":Cernunnos is the conventional name given in Celtic studies to depictions of the "horned god" of Celtic polytheism.
Emphasis mine.
Is it just me?Both have antlers, a stag theme and use a bow. This can't be a coincidence.
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Erastil was one of the many deities I exported from my homebrew into Golarion. When I first invented him back in 1990 or thereabouts, I took inspiration from several European mythological figures, including Cernunnos, but also things like the Wild Hunt and the Green Man.
All of them are different creatures/entities in Pathfinder though, with Cernunnos, the Wild Hunt, and the green man now all being statted up as individual monsters in our Bestiaries.
Yeah, the Horned Man is a recurring myth in many cultures. Midgard Press has their own version of the Hunter in their pantheon.
Erastil was one of the many deities I exported from my homebrew into Golarion. When I first invented him back in 1990 or thereabouts, I took inspiration from several European mythological figures, including Cernunnos, but also things like the Wild Hunt and the Green Man.
All of them are different creatures/entities in Pathfinder though, with Cernunnos, the Wild Hunt, and the green man now all being statted up as individual monsters in our Bestiaries.
Well, too bad we must kill this conspiracy theory!
This actually made me more curious about Erastil's past (which I guess we'll get more of, with him being one of your homebrew world gods?)|
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Erastil was one of the many deities I exported from my homebrew into Golarion. When I first invented him back in 1990 or thereabouts, I took inspiration from several European mythological figures, including Cernunnos, but also things like the Wild Hunt and the Green Man.
All of them are different creatures/entities in Pathfinder though, with Cernunnos, the Wild Hunt, and the green man now all being statted up as individual monsters in our Bestiaries.
Well, too bad we must kill this conspiracy theory!
This actually made me more curious about Erastil's past (which I guess we'll get more of, with him being one of your homebrew world gods?)
We've done a LOT of info about Erastil in books already, most notably in Inner Sea Gods. Aside from the initial broad strokes design for him, though, I've not done a lot of input on him in Golarion's version... (which has resulted, alas, in his character not developing quite the way I wanted him to and so we course corrected that).
But his history in my setting is different than his history in Golarion.