I have no particular preference between choosing a pre-existing pantheon and creating our own. :) Thing is that I'm not especially familiar with<em>any</em>pantheons except the Greek/Roman one, and that only on a surface level. I'm not as familiar with some of the common stories/myths as I would like to be.<br/><br/>If we choose to go with creating our own pantheon, I'd probably go with the suggestion of Silverfyre's of choosing a dualistic leadership (atrophy/entropy, light/dark, moon/sun come to mind), adding life and/or death (or similarly associated topics, like Spirit, Souls, and so on), and then coming up with a list of say 10-12 more gods and goddesses. Once we have a list, each person creates two or three gods and goddesses and a brief description of who they are, what they're like, what their power is over. It wouldn't be a lot of work, I don't think, since I'm not going to be asking everyone to develop full on backgrounds on the gods - just enough to get us started and further develop the parallel realm.<br/><br/>I plan on playing a grad student, somewhere between the ages of 24 to 28 years old. The idea isn't set in stone yet, but I'm thinking that she's had a successful career thus far as a classical pianist (playing with symphony orchestras; accompaniment to any number of talented musicians and vocalists; has performed for various movie and video game soundtracks, etc.), and wants to tackle the prospect of becoming a singer/songwriter. She can already play a number of instruments including the guitar, but has little to no background in lyrical composition or music composition, so she intends to study it formally. In the meantime, she is one of the musical instructors who has been licensed to teach private lessons on campus to undergraduate students.<br/><br/>Some other possibilities I had in mind for characters were: a student studying animation and motion design, and a dancer/choreographer who teaches dance lessons on the campus but does not formally teach at the school.