Drive-By

Question: In 20 words or less, give your summary of each of the major pantheons' core drive (the Pesedjet strive for harmony and order in the pursuit of Ma'at, the Aesir strive for endurance and courage in the face of impossible adversity, etc.).

What do we look like to you guys, some kind of thesis statement vending machine? You're not the boss of our wordcount!

Actually, we'd probably say that it's impossible to sum up a pantheon's "drive" that way, because each god within it has different drives. The Pesedjet share some ideas in common, but they're also composed of a bunch of different deities with different motivations and personalities; they're not all striving for the same thing all the time (or even most of the time in some cases). This is why the Nature and Virtue systems for the pantheons are not absolute; they give you a good idea of what ideas the pantheon most strongly espouses overall, but still leave room for different gods to have differing levels of those Virtues (or occasionally a completely different Virtue), not to mention sometimes having Natures that conflict with them.

It wouldn't really be accurate to make a blanket statement about the Aesir all striving for Endurance (because plenty of them don't, most notably Loki, who avoids things he might have to endure like the plague, and Baldur, who simply fails at it) or all the Amatsukami taking their Duty seriously (Susanoo quit his job the first day he was in existence, while Amaterasu deprived the world of the sun for days to punish everyone else); sure, many of them do, and all of them probably have moments they embody those concepts, but they're not unified enough to say that about everyone as a whole. Pantheons are never a boring vanilla ice cream cone of sameness. They're full of sprinkles, syrups, and... well, nuts.

However, for those that find it useful to have a basic sketch of the most likely default for a new Scion or lesser god of the pantheons, we have brief descriptions of different pantheons' interpretations of their Virtues on each pantheon's page. If you're interested more in the general theme of what a pantheon's stories and mythic cycles are about, regardless of their personalities, you might also get some use out of this old post on the subject.

Or, if we misinterpreted what you were looking for in this question, tell us about it in the comments and we'll hash it out together.