Don Quixote as a deity: What portfolios and domains would you give?

[Coidzor]

And what Divine Rank or general ball park of level of deity?

Also, what setting(s) do you think he'd most fit in with, given either no or minor modifications?

What deities would be most similar to him? Who would tend to be his enemies or allies amongst the various pantheons?

Inspired by this thread looking for a God of Lost Causes. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?361956-Looking-for-a-Forgotten-Realms-diety)

[Zombulian]

I dunno... Madness and Good Intentions?
If you have a fairly out-there god like Don Quixote would be, then probably FR.

[thethird]

I would actually say Ravenloft for a setting, in fact given how Ravenloft faith works you can ingrain him rather well (just throw someone from the real world with a vague knowledge of the guy, and have him pose as it).

Domains: Travel, Protection, Courage, Liberation, Nobility, Endurance.

[Kazudo]

Is there a domain of wind/windmills?

[Coidzor]

I would actually say Ravenloft for a setting, in fact given how Ravenloft faith works you can ingrain him rather well (just throw someone from the real world with a vague knowledge of the guy, and have him pose as it).

Domains: Travel, Protection, Courage, Liberation, Nobility, Endurance.

Would you please elaborate further upon how he works so well with Ravenloft's faith?


Is there a domain of wind/windmills?

There's Air domains and probably a Wind portfolio.

Windmills on the other hand, probably do not work that way.

[thethird]

Well you see, Don Quixote is a reflection on the decline of a genre. Knights were no longer knight-y, people didn't expect them to be. It was written at a time in which the scoundrels were not only common place, but the expected norm. Don Quixote, though? He knows that he is no knight, but he wants to be knight-y and not a scoundrel. He leads by example. He stands tall and does things. The dissonance appears when he is all knight-y and the people around him are not. In a setting with actual knights, such as Forgotten Realms, it would not work, what's the point of Don Quixote if knights are expected to be knights, and they are rewarded for it? In a setting like Eberron, where science is taking over, Don Quixote could work, for the same reasons it works in the novels, but there are still knights in Eberron.

It is a setting like Ravenloft where Don Quixote would thrive. In Ravenloft you are not rewarded for being knight-y. There are very few reasons to be good. Ravenloft doesn't encourage you to go out there and solve problems, it is not the tone of Ravenloft. In Ravenloft you do what you need to do to survive. And you do so barely. Your soul is more dirty day after day, perhaps you didn't do something wrong. But you didn't try to do something good. Don Quixote? Oh, he would TRY. People wouldn't laud him, people would actually laugh at him. Would he solve anything of the setting? No, he would not. In his situation most gods of other settings would eventually bow their head down. They would stop trying. Don Quixote? He is knight-y and beyond redemption.

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Not to speak that Ravenloft deities are a hot pot of deities of other settings, brought there by the people that were transported. They are not necessarily deities per se, but believes of people. Someone could read the books of Don Quixote, and start revering him for being chivalrous, honorable and always attempting to make a difference by example.

[Gildedragon]

Base 3 domains:

Madness, Nobility, Knowledge (it was his love of books that drove him nuts)

at more domains:

Good, Glory, Passion

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Divine Rank: 0 or 1
Portfolio: Knights, Love, Quests, Adventurers, Knowledge, Fiction, Reading, Romance, Chivalry, Good