Souls that Walk

Question: In your Inue supplement, which Shua purview to does each legend 12 god have? And what happens if any of them have the same one?

We addressed this somewhere in the bucket of comments, but here's a post so people can find it in the future. :) All the lower-Legend gods should have their Shua already detailed in their writeups, but the big fish should go as follows:

Pinga, Nakturiak, Tornarssuk and Tulungersak all probably have Shua for their specific animal totems (so Caribou, Eagles, Polar Bears and Ravens, respectively). They're the rulers of those specific animals and in charge of protecting them from wilderness and disasters as well as making sure that they're available to hunters when needed and thriving as part of the local ecosystem.

Aningat and Seqineq, as the deities of the moon and sun, almost certainly have Shua for their celestial bodies. Aningat controls and embodies the moon, its influence over the human body and the tides, while Seqineq embodies and administers the warmth and light of the northern sun.

Likewise, Sedna and Nunam are the gods of the ocean and the land, and probably have Shua for Water and Earth respectively. Sedna is in charge of many sea animals, but it's really the sea, with all its cold, frightening depths, that she is most associated with and that she can whip into a killing frenzy when angered, and Nunam personifies the earth itself, from which all life is grown and to which it returns. You could make a case for Nunam having Shua (Fertility) instead, considering that she is also the inventor of most plants, but we like the earth connection a little bit more.

And finally, there's Anguta, the hideous psychopomp that nobody likes. He doesn't exactly have a strong connection to any natural phenomena and is definitely the hardest to peg, but we would probably give him Shua (Darkness), based on the purview's connections to fear and misery and Anguta's own practices of terrifying, punishing and hiding souls in the oblivion of his dark house.

In general, two gods having the same Shua shouldn't make a whole lot of difference. Just like you might have more than one god with the same associated purviews in a pantheon, the same Shua doesn't mean there will be conflict; one person with Shua (Water) might have it because they're associated with freshwater lakes, and that doesn't interfere with Sedna as the mistress of the ocean at all. The only way there might be a conflict is if two Inue try to use their level 10 power, Tlam-Shua, to inhabit the same area of their concept, and in that case, we would probably say that both gods roll their total number of boons in the associated purview, and the winner is the one who embodies the area. But since the Inue are fighting a continual battle against the Titans in their homeland, most of the time we don't imagine that issue comes up much; it's much better for two gods to spread out and be able to inhabit (and thus protect) two different areas, rather than stacking up on the same one. We could see it being a problem if both gods were trying to dive into their element to escape something that was about to kill them, and only one could succeed... but hopefully that isn't happening much. That sounds like the worst situation ever.

Shua is about embodying a single element or concept as its very soul; the Inua who does so gives it its power and drive, and can control how strong and effective it is by supporting it or withdrawing her support from it. More than one god can do so without conflicting; after all, the more gods support an element, the more powerful it becomes, so as long as they don't step on one anothers' toes politically, they're probably perfectly happy to have the help.