Quillon
Arcane
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Nothing prevents other civilizations from worshipping the same gods under different names. And the gods let them have different rituals for some reasons of their own.I thought the way they fit the undead into their soul metaphysics was pretty good actually.
The main thing that annoys me about Pillars lore is those fucking Engwithans, they're everywhere, and with their soul-tech they're bound to eclipse any other ancient culture you might come across (the folks who built Neketaka for example).
Also having an actually-existing pantheon of gods that's global in scope but pretty small in number puts a major crimp on exploring other cultures. There's no chance of coming across something like, say, Aztecs offering still-beating hearts of captured enemies to Mictlantecuchtli because we already know there isn't a Mictlantecuchtli in the pantheon. There's also no room for beings of stature between gods and mortals -- demons and angels as it were. Best you can do is archmages or the likes of Thaos, which is pretty small.
I'm kinda sorta almost hoping they'll retcon some shit to make room for this kind of thing. Can't see any elegant way of doing it at this point though, they should've worked that into the P1 background story.
Do they have tho? Believe in one of these line up of 11 and call them something else? Can't some folk in a remote village worship some god that is not "real" nor engwithan made because of whatever just like any religion IRL?