Jumping Ship

Question: When a PC or NPC is switching pantheons, what happens to their PSP? What if you are the Scion of a god that just switched pantheons?

A good question, especially with some of our PCs recently bemoaning their home families and making moon-eyes at other pantheons (oh, guys, don't you know by now that pretty much all pantheons are populated by huge tools?).

I would say that if a god switches pantheons - really, truly switches, as in completely repudiates the Pesedjet, convinces the Devas to accept him as a legitimate member of their roster and undergoes a giant magical ritual involving the Wyrd to sever his old ties and bind him to the new pantheon, then he loses his original PSP and gains the ability to buy the new pantheon's.

Deciding to become fully a part of another pantheon and abandon your original one forever is not a small decision, and it should involve completely sacrificing what made you part of that original pantheon. If you've decided you don't want to be Egyptian anymore, you don't get to still have access to the Egyptian bag of tricks while you're learning the nifty in-and-outs of Samsara. Not only is that counter to the spirit of what you're doing (you're trying to not be Egyptian anymore, right, and instead be Indian?) but it's also extraordinarily abusable; if it worked that way, what would stop badass tricksters like Loki from pantheon-hopping until he had every PSP from every culture and could be welcomed back into the Aesir with a phenomenally powerful skillset?

A pantheon-switcher should also gain the ability to buy the new pantheon's PSP, but he won't automatically gain any levels in it; he'll need to buy them like any other god did. It seems like the easiest thing to do would be just to directly port over the Scion's old PSP into the new - oh, well, he had five levels of Jotunblut, so we'll just turn that into five levels of Tsukumo-gami - but that, too, doesn't really make a lot of in-game sense. Why should the fact that you were really good at being a strong, sturdy giant mean that you're suddenly a master of communing with the spirit world? The two don't compute; if you want to learn the secrets of another pantheon's powers, you'll have to actually learn them, not get them for free just because you jumped pantheons. If the character switching pantheons is a PC, I'd probably rule that they get the XP they spent on the original PSP back, to be spent anywhere else they desire (and perhaps suggest that they might want to invest in skills that they might have developed as a result of moving into this new divine Overworld and becoming part of this new set of divine personages).

The Scion question is blessedly simple; even if a god switches pantheons, his Scions were created as Scions of his home pantheon, and they'll remain so unless they, too, abandon ship. Their divine ichor has already been activated as part of that pantheon; an Aztec's parent defecting won't make the Scion suddenly turn Celtic because he's already a budding Aztec divinity in his own right, the same way that a god becoming a Titan won't automatically turn all of his children into Titanspawn.