Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20170430155022/@comment-25936766-20170526173729

SpiritedDreaming wrote:

1-If you wanted to make him a god of some sort, couldn’t you at least use some creativity and make your own pantheon and religion like Miles and Kerry did, instead of porting in a pantheon from our world?

2-For gods’ sake (pun intended) they even have the alternate names of the gods from the exact pantheon you are porting in. (Using a Quote because recently the Edits haven't been working for me. I make the changes and press Save, then it just "freezes" without saving anything).

1-In my defense, Tropes are Tools, and what I did was just that. The idea of a religion in a fictional work, based notably on a real-life religion, sometimes to Expy-levels, it's nothing new, and not bad by itself.

An example is the Chantry in Dragon Age, which is literally just Christianity whose Jesus simply got mixed with Jeanne D'Arc, and more matriarchal. 2 bits of real difference. No one complains or criticizes it.

I didn't copy-paste the story beyond the basic premise, at the least, even if the pantheon feels pretty much the same with small extra details. I didn't copy-paste the characters's personalities and relationships either. So it's not like I just ripped it off.

2-The other way around; a theorical approximation of their real names, since the Greek ones are the ones used by the common man.

I used them because they are never used. When was the last time you heard someone call Anubis "Anapa", or Thoth "Djehuti"? It felt creative to use the names 9.5/10 people have never even heard.