Gods of the Seven Cities - Design Notes: The Gods
Be warned this is waffely half-formed brain spew about "the creative process" so if you're not into that their will be another class write up soon.
If you are into that I was aware that I mentioned a few concepts concerning the gods in the Asipu write up and realised it might be an idea to mention what the gods are and how they might work.
Design Notes: The Gods
I’d been toying with the idea of a fertile crescent bronze age setting and as usual I let a few inchoate ideas float around the old brainbox then I started researchings. The research, for me at least, was fun, but nothing really sparked until I started delving into Mesopotamian religion. The two pertinent things I learned are . . .
A - There isn’t a familial pantheon of a few related gods, but instead thousands of gods.
B - Mesopotamian people thought of their gods almost as celebrities living glamourous or weird soap opera style lives.
. . . I’m paraphrasing a lot their but that was the gist.
Celebrities. Divine ce…
If you are into that I was aware that I mentioned a few concepts concerning the gods in the Asipu write up and realised it might be an idea to mention what the gods are and how they might work.
Design Notes: The Gods
I’d been toying with the idea of a fertile crescent bronze age setting and as usual I let a few inchoate ideas float around the old brainbox then I started researchings. The research, for me at least, was fun, but nothing really sparked until I started delving into Mesopotamian religion. The two pertinent things I learned are . . .
A - There isn’t a familial pantheon of a few related gods, but instead thousands of gods.
B - Mesopotamian people thought of their gods almost as celebrities living glamourous or weird soap opera style lives.
. . . I’m paraphrasing a lot their but that was the gist.
Celebrities. Divine ce…
