Also rejected: the Lemurian and Meropian pantheons.

Question: Maybe this is a dumb question, but what is your hate-on for Atlantis?

Aww, Atlantis, don't feel that way. It's not a hate-on. We actually quite love you. Remember that time that the Better Next Time PCs had to swim down to your sunken grave and prevent you from ever seeing the light of day? Good times, good times.

It's not Atlantis that we hate - it's a pretty cool story hook and place to investigate, particularly if you have a Scion of Poseidon in the band. Lost lands, sunken treasure, all the exciting aquatic antagonists you can come up with. No, it's the Atlantean pantheon from Scion: Demigod that we hate. We hate it bad.

Well, hate's a strong word. It's more that we're mystified by it. Why does it exist? Who looked at Scion, a game about the incredible narratives of world mythology, and said, "We should invent a pretend mythology now instead of exploring any of these other ones"? The Atlantean pantheon, which is 100% invented from whole cloth and has nothing to do with world myth other than being ostensibly based in a city Plato mentioned metaphorically that one time, is just confusing to me. There are scads of games already out there that use made-up pantheons (D&D or Call of Cthulhu most notably, but there are plenty of others, too). I'd be playing those if that was what I wanted.

But I'm playing Scion, because world mythology is awesome and full of endless possibilities, and I can do general fiction any number of other places. So the Atlantean pantheon got stricken from our records pretty much almost immediately, helped along by our players' tendency to point and laugh after reading that section of Demigod.

It doesn't help that Scire, while possessing a few interesting powers for Intelligence knacks, is a pretty uninspiring pantheon-specific purview, too.