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Originally Posted by bert
What I meant is: select the particular piece of legend that suits your god, and go from there. Myth and legend may contain almost contradictory information about the very same good - but when describing the deity, one needs to select what is truth in-game. Of course, if the god is only very seldomly interfering in the game world, it is of use the have contradictory in-game myths and legends so the players are kept on their toes!
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Surely. You have all the same privileges as Virgil did. It is a myth that myths are written in stone (while they may have been sometimes but you know what I mean). As long as you do not make your audience gag you are reasonably free to do what you want. You cannot make a chaste Aphrodite, a stupid Athena, or a Posseidon who is afraid of water or if you do you have to justify it. But that is just saying that all fantasy writters are limited by what their audience would take.