I am conflicted about this thread. First because the ideas are great and yet they are two big to read and digest all at once (I plan on doing a second pass to address that). The other reason if I think this might belong in World Building but that gets so much less traffic than Roleplaying Games, I think this thread existed in some form in that forum already actually (although it seems to have been archived since). I kind of wish there was a better connection than going up and back down. It isn't much put it is just enough to put it out of sight.

My most recent lore idea was not for a creature, but a futuristic city that included the god of thunder's temple. Which was basically a giant lightning rod that got hit with enough divine lighting they turned it into a generator that powers most of the city (as in it produces just over half the power the city uses). For fantasy creatures I would have to think back a little bit more.