The first two factions I created in this pantheon had no interactions at all, as far as domain assignments are concerned. I added four more factions and started to see some interactions, including some potentially unreliable or even compromised faction members.

One thing I didn’t check, though, was the distribution of domains between and among the factions. I know which faction has ‘the deity of fire’ (the deity with Fire as the primary domain), but which factions have fire deities (deities with Fire as the primary or secondary domain)?

I suspect this could be illuminating, so let’s take a look. How deities with each domain are in each faction?

Domain	Primary Faction	Alignment	F1	F2	F3	F4	F5	F6	None
Air	F1	N	2				1	1	2
Artifice	F1	N	3				1
Chaos	F3	CN	1		3				2
Charm	F6	LG			1			3
Community	F5	NE	1				3
Darkness	F1	N	3		1				2
Death	F3	N		1	2			1	2
Destruction	None	LN		1	1			1	1
Earth	F5	N	1			2	2		1
Evil	F5	NE		1		1	3		1
Fire	F2	N		3			1		2
Glory	None	N		1		2			1
Good	F6	NG			2			3	1
Healing	F6	LG	1					3
Knowledge	F4	NE				2	2
Law	F6	LN		1				3	2
Liberation	F1	CN	2		1	1
Luck	F2	N		3	1
Madness	None	LE	1				1	1	1
Magic	F4	N	1			2			3
Nobility	None	NG	2					1	1
Plant	F4	N				3	1
Protection	F5	NE		1		1	2
Repose	None	CN		1	1	1			1
Rune	F3	CG	1		2			1
Strength	None	N		2		1			1
Sun	F2	N		2					4
Travel	None	N	1			1	1		1
Trickery	F3	CG			3			1
War	F2	LE		2			1	1
Water	F4	N				3	1		2
Weather	None	CN		1	2				1

One thing I learned, if I want to do this kind of analysis I definitely want to add it to my workbook. This was pretty tedious.

Anyway…

Each domain is accessible by 2 or 3 factions. Each faction provides access to 12 or 13 domains. Non-factioned deities provide access to 20 domains.

This feels like good coverage, all things considered.

I see the deities with the following domains in each faction (with alignment tendency for the faction).

• Faction 1 (CN): Air, Artifice, Chaos, Community, Darkness, Earth, Healing, Liberation, Madness, Magic, Nobility, Rune, Travel.
• Faction 2 (LE): Death, Destruction, Evil, Fire, Glory, Law, Luck, Protection, Repose, Strength, Sun, War, Weather.
• Faction 3 (CG): Chaos, Charm, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Good, Liberation, Luck, Repose, Rune, Trickery, Weather.
• Faction 4 (NE): Earth, Evil, Glory, Knowledge, Liberation, Magic, Plant, Protection, Repose, Strength, Travel, Water.
• Faction 5 (NE): Air, Artifice, Community, Earth, Evil, Fire, Knowledge, Madness, Plant, Protection, Travel, War, Water.
• Faction 6 (LG): Air, Charm, Death, Destruction, Good, Healing, Law, Madness, Nobility, Rune, Trickery, War.
• No Faction (N): Air, Chaos, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Earth, Evil, Fire, Glory, Good, Law, Madness, Magic, Nobility, Repose, Strength, Sun, Travel, Water, Weather.

These are… not nice factions. Even the ‘LG faction’ has some relatively dark elements (Death, Destruction, Madness, War). Domains that might otherwise be assumed ‘nice’ (including Glory, Luck, Liberation, Protection) are in factions that lean toward evil.

Closing Comments

This is probably going to be more work to explain than if the domain-alignment associations were closer to common expectation, but none of them feel exceptionally wrong. Unexpected maybe, but workable. More importantly, the combinations are already sparking ideas and I think they’ll bring me somewhere interesting.

I do want to revise the workbook to make these analyses easier. The current workbook supports only one set of weights (i.e. what I’m now calling a ‘faction’), I’ll want to expand that to probably six or eight. I’m pretty sure I’ll also want to make it easier to set thresholds for faction membership, and count deities with each domain in each faction. It looks like I’m going to learn some more Excel, I don’t know even how to do some of these calculations. But I will soon.

TL;DR: good domain coverage between the factions, good faction coverage between domains, and very good coverage by non-factions deities (which surprised me a little considering how few non-factioned deities I have). I feel like the deities and their factions might take a bit of explaining, but that the effort will be worth it.