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I just have one culture that started out as a project for a 9th grade class in which we had to research two cultures and then invent a new one using aspects of both of those cultures. I chose a somewhat strange synthesis, which was Japan and the Aztecs. The culture I ended up creating has stayed with me ever since. Now I have changed aspects of the fantasy culture to respect particular things (and I don't expect that to stop as this is definitely still in development) like not making all the gods ask for blood sacrifices, especially the ones inspired by Shinto deities out of respect for the purity that is important in Shinto. In fact I have an entire story now in which the sun goddess divorces her war god husband over a disagreement dealing with sacrifice. And it's also a story about why women are the ones with the right to divorce their husband in their culture.

But yeah, that's just one example of probably many out there.