@Elliot_Kane : Yes, names would've helped. I noticed it at some point, too, but decided not to use names. I still don't know why - also, the Gods of the Continents rarely have or reveal "real" names. Except of that briefly mentioned story every DGod or Goddess on the Continent actually uses the name given by their worshippers.
People create names for things as fast as they encounter them. It's just what people do <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> A named thing is a known thing - hence more understandable and less frightening <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
You need a name for 'The Continent' too <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> It doesn't sound lived in without one <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Just another example : In a fantasy environment, one could easily worship Gandals or Sauron, because they are special. Or someone would even try to worship Galadriel or the High Elves (like Frodo and Sam almost do).
Very true. Any exceptional being with powers beyond mortal comprehension would tend to generate a cult of some kind at worst, and a full-blown religion at best. Or get feared, persecuted and hunted... We humans are a strange lot <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
That's the point : The Gods of the Continent aren't so very special, at least they don't believe themselves to be so, they are simply Gods (who would like to gather in an Inn, if they could) very human-like, although I didn't have the ancient greek gods in mind while writing my stories, they are the ones in the mythology I know of which come closest to the Gods of the Continent.
Most of the ancient pantheons are very, very human in their actions and thoughts. There is nothing wrong with this approach at all, IMO. The idea of a deity being perfect and unknowable in every respect is a relatively modern one, and only rarely useful to a fiction writer in any event. Perfect beings can't ever get it
wrong you see <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
The one question that does occur to me, though, is
why don't the gods think themselves to be very special? What is out there that makes them think that? (And how many stories could you get from the mortals finding out <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />)
