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Smite character design principles in two images... men are weird, over the top mixes of power/macho physiques and armor so ridiculous you’d need cybernetics to hold it up... women ridiculous outfits that show off they have hips and tits. (This is actually one of Nemesis’s better skins)

No, really. That’s basically their entire brand. This is the background image for their site, for their game about battling gods and pantheons.

Then if you don’t buy in immediately and want to look at what they got... here’s your first two gods on the roster.... Zeus and the Morrigan.¹

And yes, they’re treating the gods currently worshipped by actual Hindu people today with the same irreverence as for... characters who... at best are at least as much creative license by writers as they are myth (Arthurian figures and Sun Wukong) ²

So, when people try to pretend that stuff like this is okay because it’s based on immodest pagan gods etc, rest assured... if it was about that, you’d know.

- wincenworks

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¹ This one is particularly bizarre since they have the Morrigan and Cú Chulainn, but do not have the horny/female empowerment queen Celtic (warrior) goddess icon (Queen) Medb, who’s name may mean “she who intoxicates”. ² They’ve actually gone a step worse than this and decided that the actual religion of roughly 1.35 billion people alive today with... an 80s toy ad...