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2021-04-28, 09:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Did the goblins worship Fenris? Or at the very least acknowledged him?
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2021-04-28, 09:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Did the goblins worship Fenris? Or at the very least acknowledged him?
A related term is henotheism, that is, the worship of several deities but with one above the others. Usually because their domain is the most relevant to the worshipper's everyday life, such as a sea god for a fisherman.
Durkon and his family, for example seem henotheists to me, as in, they worship all the Northern Gods (Hel excepted, or maybe in a "worshipped against sense), but Thor most of all.Forum Wisdom
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2021-04-28, 10:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Did the goblins worship Fenris? Or at the very least acknowledged him?
(In the strict sense, henotheism describes arrangements where there is a kind of hierarchy and the „Hen” is considered an overdeity or at the very least, one of objectively higher rank than the others, so I'm not sure the thing with dwarves and Thor fits.)
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2021-04-28, 10:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Did the goblins worship Fenris? Or at the very least acknowledged him?
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2021-04-28, 10:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Did the goblins worship Fenris? Or at the very least acknowledged him?
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2021-04-28, 11:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Did the goblins worship Fenris? Or at the very least acknowledged him?
There seems to be more Neutral and Evil outsiders than there are Good. For an Evil God, discarding followers who have failed is par for the course. For certain takes on neutrality, it would fall under survival-of-the-fittest. A Good deity would care for the inherent dignity of the lives of it's creations. But the Goblins weren't created by a Good deity.
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2021-04-28, 01:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Did the goblins worship Fenris? Or at the very least acknowledged him?
But if I read how humans are, and how they are aligned, the OoTS gods seem to have all created humans as a joint project since humans are and can be of any and every alignment.
Not sure if that goes for elves or dwarves, since I think they have a 'preferred' or 'most likely' alignment in the Monster Manual, right?
Taking this idea one step further, it points to the suboptimal race having to be the humans - since they were built by committee. (And there sits the fruit pie sorcerer, weeping in the corner ...) They eventually overcame their initial handicap, I guess (can't see in the dark, don't live for hundreds of years, no stone cunning, etc)Last edited by KorvinStarmast; 2021-04-28 at 01:50 PM.
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