Yeah, that's what I meant, a god that got turned mortal or, if they had even shittier luck, got sent to the Underworld and became a "high-ranking" demon.
Here I am, thanks for pointing this thread out Asin, theology has been one of my hobbies for some time,so I always enjoy this threads
Well, no more blogging, lets get to god-talking
''In real life'' gods behave somewhat like mortals, and have affairs, problem and solutions to them, but their metaphisical laws are not like ours, nor their responsabilities, objectives and worries, thats why they can do stuff like casting someone off the god-world (usually poly-pantheistic rel., with the notable exception of god and lucifer), creating a gazillion angels to work for him, or why they transform into a goose and fertilize mortals
Some gods care too much, and have defined objectives(Catholical God), and some gods are just enjoying the godhood the best they can (The greek pantheon)
Ok, no here comes the interesting part
There's a paralellism between humans and gods, and why they do what they do in life, a reason why some gods need to have as much followers as possible (direct existance caused by mortals' faith) and others just relax in their plane (existance is continous, as long as the universe exists), or why most humans lead the same type of life, dealing with the same problems and going to 'heaven' or 'hell'
The nature of the universe. Or, translated into DF jargon, The state of the procedurally gennerated myth system for a world
That's what Toady refers to when he speaks of different gods behaving differently, or even existing in a certain way, as well as forces of nature and certain mythological concepts even existing, from one world to another, its because the methaphisical order can/does differ from one world to another
I know this might be obvious or simple to grasp for most, but I feel this concept is the base from what theology stems from, and its not something you usually think about, so let me delve a little more into it
Gods might be omnipotent (or not), but even a know-it-all god has objectives or at least things that take up his time, and this things are derived from the nature of the being in question
In a highly fantastical world, this objectives can vary wildly, you can have gods that created the world you live in, and that care about its creation, and so the religion they spawn are centered in equilibrium and ecology
You can have man-made gods (if the world's fantasy rating is high enough) that arise from misery and hatred, and so their religion will be centered about warship and cruelty (goblins gods mostly)
And a looong etc.
The main problem Toady has to implement all of this, as you can see , is that he needs to code in enormous ammounts of different situations, and AI for gods
Even more for inter-gods relationships and ''happenings'' like those described in the thread, or those in mithlogy
Phew, that turned out to be longer than I expected, sorry for the wall of text guys