I'm personally not fond of adding transcendent deities in my Warriors world-building because, as someone whose religious practice even as far back as when I was Catholic has always had an ancestor-centric bent to it, I frankly just like that being that being the vibe and the focus. But I think it would be interesting if the very early stories of the DotC era were originally myths of transcendent deities that were gradually euhemerized as the focus of the religion pulled towards ancestor worship more and more.
Thus a Sky Father-type figure, with a Storm Goddess wife and a Thunder Bringer son turns to Skystar, Storm and Thunderstar, a River God turns to the easygoing Riverstar, a celestial Wind Goddess and her terrestrial partner God of the Moor turn to Windstar and Gorsestar, and so forth.
This can then be a very interesting point of divergence with groups like the Tribe, who still preserve a more divine view of the deities whose worship they originated. And very likely they didn't originate them all, this being reflected in how the stories present some of the founders coming from the mountains and others already residing in the forest territories.
