"Elven Gods of natural destruction fathered by Ellinill, who then grew mistrustful and devoured most of them. Some of them have grown beyond their origins - Mathlann became God of the Sea, Drakira the Goddess of Vengeance, Addaioth has been trying to become a God of Weapons. Ulric may have been a God of blizzards or similar that grew beyond His origins."
...
Hm.
This sort of... Sounds like an allegory for a population explosion of Gods with the coming of the Aethyr? That is, it's a myth, but it also could map onto how in Warhammer's history you had gods and cults rising and falling and spreading and changing and so on too.
But as for the Winds, to worship them as Gods is is incorrect, but why is it incorrect?"
"is is" should just be "is"
"Why do you theorize that there must be so much crossover between the different pantheons?"
It tilts its head. "Why would there not be? Do two dragons share a hunting ground? Two kings a kingdom?"
I didn't get this at all at first. "Huh? Two kings
don't share a kingdom, that's the point, what does this mean?" But then it came to be about competition. Just... This doesn't quite make sense to me. This feels like an explanation for why they would be crossover between
gods. But not an explanation for why there would be crossover between racial pantheons.
Unless it means to say that... "
Because somebody already staked their claim on this land, nobody else can claim it. Therefore, it has to be the same god that'll cover that territory in another race's pantheon." As if another race can't, say, split that territory between 3 gods of their own.
Still weird though. You'd expect the latter to happen; different cultures and races bundling things together a bit differently even if/when convergent evolution happens. Rather than somehow getting the same convergent evolution result each time. But I guess it's a matter of a fantastical universe; that in a world with gods and magic, you have a bit of supernatural ontological cultural inertia.
And even then, you can still have different and new gods crop up, too. Like Sigmar for example. I wish Mathilde wasn't anti-Sigmarite, so that she could bring it up to Cython and talk all about it. It could be a
fascinating conversation. Sigmar was a man, and he became a god. And he is a major god of a culture. A major, major god. And he has a clear and present origin, due to being historical.
(... I wonder. He walked the Road of Skulls to the north, like Grimnir did. I wonder if that had anything to do with it. That is... The Dwarf Ancestor Gods were around and did stuff, and Grimnir disappeared into the north. Thus it may be a divinity-related thing. And then Sigmar was a huge Dwarf Friend, and did a similar thing to the Ancestor Gods what with how he left and where he left. So. I wonder if there's some kind of supernatural or religious shared element here. Hmmm.
Hmmmm.)
Though I also gotta say, I'm not sure about the "No reason to worship the Winds" thing. Like... if the Winds
are constant and reliable, then, why wouldn't that be a good reason to worship them? Or is it because, the Winds being what they are, they don't get anything from worship the way Gods do and thus it is pointless to do so? It's basically like a reason to not be religious at all, then. 'Gods aren't worth your worship because they aren't reliable.' 'This isn't worth your worship either, because while it's reliable, it's not a god.'
