A Clash of Kings

Question: How do the head honchos of each pantheon interact with each other and view each other in your games? What does Zeus think of Odin? Tezcatilpoca thinks what of Horus? What happens in your game if they all get put into room together?

Well, as noted in a previous post, Tezcatlipoca is actually more of a really awesome adjunct; Huitzilopochtli's the dude you want when asking about the leader of his pantheon and his political interactions. He is every kind of in charge.

But that aside, politics are a thorny and tangled thing in our games; having Scions from many different pantheons interacting in the same bands tends to make that happen, because their parents are a lot less likely to play nicely together than they are. (Which is a lot of fun, really.) There've been friendships, enmity, and political faux pas pretty much every way you turn. A few highlights, in no particular order:

Zeus and Odin find one another irritating, I imagine - neither is willing to be anything but The Most In Charge, so they don't get along too well and tend to avoid one another. Odin seems to maintain an air of amused superiority when it comes to Zeus, which is probably asking for trouble at some future date. Zeus can't see around Odin's shenanigans, but he's pretty sure (rightly) he's probably being insulted most of the time. It's a powderkeg of a situation and has been for centuries.

In a much worse situation, Odin basically declared flat-out war on Huitzilopochtli, which has led to a very, very nasty and bloody guerrilla campaign between the two pantheons. Odin wanted to lay claim to various resources the Aztlanti owned and didn't have much of a problem rolling in personally to get them, while Huitzilopochtli, who had previously thought they were on pretty good terms, got real pissed real quick.

Oh, and Odin also led a strike-force into Japan to get a relic that was hidden there, so he and Amaterasu aren't speaking anymore, either. Odin is really just a continual political disaster due to his impressive ability to not give a shit about anyone else's problems or happiness.

On happier terms, however, are Huitzilopochtli and Shango, who are buddies and have been known to go drinking and blowing things up with fire from the sky together when they aren't busy. Shango is similarly on fairly decent terms with the Pesedjet, though his pantheon makes a point of never letting him anywhere near Zeus lest An Incident inevitably occur between the two volatile thunder-gods.

It's not a huge surprise that Zeus has pretty much zero respect for the struggling remnants of the Nemetondevos; their feud continues apace, often including raids on one anothers' Overworlds and remote messing with one anothers' Scions. Cernunnos and Odin, on the other hand, are actually getting along and cautiously allied at the moment, probably because they both have a history of seriously pissing off ominous trios of ladies.

And, of course, nobody likes the Trimurti.

Most pantheon heads are pretty neutral toward one another; there's about the amount of posturing and penis-comparing and demanding going on whenever they're near one another that you'd expect, but due to the Titan war they're mostly able to put aside their political kerfluffles and fight together when necessary. Other than the cases above, things aren't usually too bad - but considering that the PCs are also prone to political missteps and many pantheon leaders have notoriously bad tempers, the situation is always apt to shift suddenly and violently.