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There are other pantheons which have not made it into the AD&D game (or, not to a significant degree). Deities from some of these pantheons have been mentioned on occasion, however. I don’t have sources on most of these pantheons at this time (other than Hittite), but there’s definitely some interesting potentialities among them. Much of my current knowledge is from books on other topics that just tangentially touch on these pantheons. Of these, the Hittite pantheon is one I would certainly be working on at some point, while most of the others are far less likely

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I know very little about North American/First Nations faiths, beyond little bits that have made their way into general American knowledge. What is clear about the AD&D material, though, is that it is an amalgamation of different cultural traditions, primarily Navajo and Plains/North Eastern faiths as far as I can tell. As such it may be more appropriate to split up to better represent the actual faiths and be more respectful towards the individual cultures. I’d need to know a lot more about the various beliefs here to work on them, however.

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