Hey all, I'm looking for help developing a new Pantheon and Pantheon Specific Purview for Scion. Specifically I am looking for to create a Native American Pantheon, either as a general Pantheon encompassing, in a general sense, the multitude of North American Native mythologies or more specifically the Puebloan Peoples (which includes among others the Hopi and Zuni).

There is a Fan made Pantheon HERE, and likewise the start of a potential Purview HERE

I don't pretend or claim any great amount of knowledge regarding to any of the Native American peoples so I'm reaching out in hope that I can get help in fleshing out the Pantheon and completing the Purview. I'm not opposed to starting from scratch in regards to either. I do intend to use the write up for Coyote/Br'er Rabbit from the Companion however (Pantheon purview not withstanding).

Anyway, I would appreciate any help I can get, especially in regards to a purview. Thanks.

The Pantheon isn't too bad, but the purview needs some work.

I could prolly whip something up, but it's be a hard one to do since the Native American people, when it comes to beliefs, encompassed spirituality that is already covered by other purviews.

Kachina isn't too bad, but it's not very useful from what I read.

What do people think the purview should encompass?

My thoughts exactly, aside from lacking detail (which frankly I could force back on any players who wanted to use it) the Pantheon isn't terrible. Purview though ...


I was thinking about this yesterday on my way to (and back from) a Superbowl viewing. For me it keeps coming back to two things: Harmony with their surroundings, and the communion with the spirits of nature. I looked at the Harmony virtue and what it does:



That looks right for a virtue but I keep thinking that maybe Harmony could also be a purview, an ability to manipulate the balance of nature without upsetting it, and to use that balance to gain insight/communion with nature's spirits.

You could bring it back to weaving...hmn...perhaps that the Scion can reweave their surroundings to change things a little, but do so without disrupting people. Essentially part of their reweaving was that it had now always been that way. Dunno if that would work or not, I'm not a Scion buff, but it seems like it would fit in theme at least a little.

Another possibility I suppose would be to expand upon the oft over used "vision/spirit quest" concept into a full purview. Something akin to Prophecy and Mystery but also neither of those things. Or perhaps its enough that those exist and the entire idea of a vision quest is merely a use of Mystery or Prophecy couched within a certain thematic system of activation.

The more I think about this the more I think Reven's comment about the various beliefs of the Native American peoples already being well covered is true. There may not be enough of a _need_ for a specific purview.