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   * **Inheritance** - sometimes a god dies and passes their divinity and/or portfolio to another, for example Midnight became Mystara, in the 3.5 universe. However, it might be that a deity is killed in a fight, and the portfolio is 'stolen' by the victor.  That could be another deity, feeding on the death or a peer, or a particularly powerful mortal (devil, demon etc) taking on a weakened deity and stealing their powers.  Often times there will be a few shards of divinity left over, that just get lost in the ether ...
   * **The Starstone** - Pathfinder has the Starstone as a shortcut to deity.  You jump across to it, face various trials and, if you succeed, become a deity of some sort.  Cayden Cailean, The Lucky Drunk, is probably the most well known of these.
-  * **Mythic Deeds** - as PF Mythic characters progress, they can gain mythic levels by becoming involved in events of cosmic / mythological importance.  In my system, that just means they are in a position to absorb a stray Shard of Divinity.  Each 'Trial' gains them one shard of Divinity - unless the DM decides differently.  A character needs something like thirty trials/shards before they are a real power.  However, by choosing the right abilities, they can become a quasi-deity after four trials (when they become tier 3)  However, the spells that they can grant are very limited.  I restrict quasi-deities to Adept spells - just to add a bit of differentiation.  I miss the days when Demi-gods could only grant 5th level spells, etc  ...
+  * **Mythic Deeds** - as PF Mythic characters progress, they can gain mythic levels by becoming involved in events of cosmic / mythological importance.  In my system, that just means they are in a position to absorb a stray Shard of Divinity.  Each 'Trial' gains them one shard of Divinity - unless the DM decides differently.  A character needs something like thirty trials/shards before they are a real power.  However, by choosing the right abilities, they can become a quasi-deity after fewer trials (when they become tier 3)  However, the spells that they can grant are limited their Mythic Tier and Powers/Domains need higher tiers.  I restrict quasi-deities to Adept spells - just to add a bit of differentiation.  I miss the days when Demi-gods could only grant 5th level spells, etc  ...
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+++++ Notes and Sources|
 The Mythology contains elements from a number of creation myths (Korean, Serer(Senegal), Pangu(Chinese), Mande(Mali), Celtic and Norse amongst others)
-The first three generations of deity are'borrowed' from folk lore and a number of different mythologies -  but sometimes using a variant or less common name.
+Some deitie are'borrowed' from folk lore and a number of different mythologies -  but sometimes using a variant or less common name.
+Core D&D/PF deities follow the rules in their own game system.  This holds for any other system that you care to introduce.
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