Abaddon
Deity
What would a map show? nations, with an overlay of where our power is significant?
If the picture doesn't show it. I need to know if the god is a he, a she or an it.gender: male (Needed?)
It would show terrain, with cities, villages, important locations, temples and such placed.What would a map show? nations, with an overlay of where our power is significant?
aspect: Earth
Ok. But it's up to the players after all, so I'll balance it so that the more vague and universal an aspect, the less powerful a god in it.I think that what a god controls should proceed from his actions and his aspect, not vice versa. A god of water is as bad as a god of earth (another point to be raised against them is the sheer amount of aquatic and chthonic deities in Greek mythology alone, by the way. And none of them are gods of water or of earth, naturally). A god of law is good, though; a god of tricks is too specific (like calling a god of war a god of "killing people with swords") and is best replaced with a god of discord. As to overlapping, all aspects will inevitably overlap in one way or another anyway. That said, what does a god need soil for? A god of fertility needs merely to cultivate fertility, and if a god of earth is basically a god of the underworld then I fail to see any real conflict of interest, as if anything the latter benefits from the success of the former (the more things are born, the more things die).
Fair enough, though personally I'd really rather not have such nonsense at all. Just define a god's aspect as some specific tenet or ideal.