bisexualdinahlance reblogged
When inventing a fantasy religion a lot of people a) make the mistake of assuming that everyone in fantasy world would worship the same gods and b) assume that polytheistic religions see all of their gods as morally good
Some types of religions for your world building (any of these ideas can stand alone or be combined with each other):
- One god, don’t play with any others.
- Everything is God
- One big god or small group of gods made everything but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other smaller ones that work for the big one(s)
- There’s one god but all of these hundreds of gods are aspects of that one god and the aspects of the one god can absolutely marry each other and have marital squabbles
- Individuality is an illusion and the universe is a series of vibes experiencing itself
- The world used to be an egg but then that egg became a god and then that god made some other gods and then those gods became bored and made the universe and then they got to screwing each other to make even more gods and now there’s hundreds of them and exactly what gods are worshiped changes on who you ask in a particular region
- Everything has a soul. Act like it.
- Someone or something spoke the world into existence and we’ve been stealing other people’s stories ever since we’ll take whatever gods you have
- A bunch of regional gods got smushed together and now there’s a state mandated religion that’s trying to make this smaller pantheon more popular than local folk religion
- The difference between a god, a nature spirit, and a legendary person is extremely unclear even to worshipers but there’s shrines to all of them
- A god chose these people to be their special guys and their special guys are gonna have a tough time. That god may be the only god or it may be one of many those people believe exist
- Humans were kinda stupid until this one spirit or person showed up and taught them how to do stuff so now we do stuff to thank the person or thing that taught us how to do stuff
- The world will keep on ending and being rebuilt it just does that sometimes nobody knows when it started or if it ever did
- You can learn a lot from talking animals.
- People were made to do work the god(s) don’t wanna do
- People were made because the god(s) were lonely/bored/drunk
- This river in particular is the most important thing in the whole universe
- You need to get better philosophy. This guy was good at philosophy. Read his book.