How do you depict a fantasy nation whose church/patron deity is a death god...

How do you depict a fantasy nation whose church/patron deity is a death god, but who specifically DOESN'T like necromancy, and is possibly outright opposed to it (because it interferes with the natural cycle of life and death, etc.)

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Pathfinder's Pharasma deity is basically that

City of Judgement. Next question.

You can do it as literally anything

Anti-necromancy Death gods fits the abrahamic religions relatively well.

Also, Hades was considered an impartial judge.

Pharasma in Pathfinder
Kelemvor in D&D/Forgotten Realms
Jergal (slightly) in D&D/Forgotten Realms
Hades in classical mythology
Yama in Hindu/Buddhism
The Guédé Loa in Hatian Voodoo

Also, like three quarters of the Aztec pantheon and a fair amount of the Egyptian pantheon.

Just do that. Possibly add something (fake or real) about how the world of the dead is dangerous and the God protects the living from it. Necromancers and others like them disturbs the dead and make the line between both worlds weaker, sabotaging the work of the God and his underlings.

Other death related religious concepts are funerary rituals (get wild with em if you want) who are probably the main source of income for the priesthood. And the concept of martyrium, which will grant the religion an armed force. You don't even need a god of war if you have a god of death who values martyrs.

A sysadmin trying to keep hackers from breaking the system.

For Christianity and 1st century Judaism (minus the saducees) true resurrection was still on the table

>main god is a death god
>every church exists to praise the fact that you're going to fucking die
>no focus on the journey, just on dying
It's like a dumber version of Christianity, I guess

Morr from Warhammer Fantasy.

Now imagine if he replaced Sigmar as the patron god of the whole Empire.

Aztecs, just remove the necromancy

I'm going to play an Anubian Jackal race paladin. His society is very militaristic and values honour. They train their lives to be good warriors (inspired by Darknuts, especially Windwaker design with Twilight Princess armor style). They hope to die an honourful death on the battlefield and be judged worthy of a good afterlife. They also have groups who specifically police to prevent the dead from being disturbed and who will go after anyone attempting necromancy.

NECRONS

Before the C'tan ofcourse

that's a pretty limited view of potential death gods.
>discworld death
>sandman/dc death
>even some interpretations of classical hades/pluto
what has the harvest, if not for the care of the reaper man?

Talking about death, would be neat if the death god angels(reapers) were the ones who truly made things die, like if you die a reaper will have to come and reap you.
Would be nice to kill the reaper to save a comrade them open an arc of the history where the god is mad at you cause of this and you are fucked.

Could have a sorta Buddhist angle where they think life is suffering, so death is release.

NO THAT'S BAD

Cause if you kill one that means there are like other people on the list that won't get offed!
Including but not limited to:
*The 'Evil' warlord who's currently dying of wound infection.
*A sacrifice to some Eldrich abomination
* And that poor adventurer that's stuck under a rock.

Don't be a DICK let death do his job!

That sounds way more edgy than it should. The pali word Dukkha, often translated as 'pain' leans towards 'unsatisfactoriness' in the context. There is pain, but life consists of unsatisfactoriness, or uneasiness, even when there is no real pain and things seem good. It's an obvious truth that life is not constantly painful as most understand pain, so it does a clear disservice to carry on the poor translation of the Buddhist doctrine.

>kill the reaper
But who reaps the reapers so you can kill them? Wouldn't that reaper just reap your friend too when it came for it's own friend?

Woops, replace every use of the word pain in this post with suffering. Stay hydrated.

Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte

Pharasma (Pathfinder) and the Raven Queen (4e Points of Light) are literally this. Heck, even Kelemvor in the Forgotten Realms has this as his hat.