I was rereading Occult Lore from Atlas and came up with a setting idea about a religous war. It really doesn't matter what the world looks like, what is important is, as of 150 years ago, the only people who can cast magic are shamans. They interated with the spirit realm ever since the spirits revealed themselves, many aeons ago. 150 years ago a shaman was talking to the reminant within a body via speak with dead. He knew that the enity he was speaking to wasn't a spirit so he decided to find out what it was exactly and thus the first gleaner was born (this is the class from OL).
Gleaners collect the bits of soul left after death and use them as a source of magical power. At first this didn't bother the shamans at all- no spirits were harmed. Then the gleaners found out how to give power to individual revents (which were renamed- sorry for the poor spelling, I don't have the book here) and caused them to change and grow (within a container called a reliquary. They were still less than spirits so the shamans still payed little attention.
Then, 50 years ago the first level 10 reliquary was broken in an accident. The now powerful spirit survived and is still growing in power. The spirit was, in life, a king that was all but worshipped after his death. And now this spirit is becoming the world's first god do to that adolation. Gleaners are now hunted, bodies burned and reliquaries destroyed. But the clerics and gleaners who want to create gods that will both give them power and provide a more stable source of safety for the masses (the spirits are very fickle).
So which side would you play on and why?
Gleaners collect the bits of soul left after death and use them as a source of magical power. At first this didn't bother the shamans at all- no spirits were harmed. Then the gleaners found out how to give power to individual revents (which were renamed- sorry for the poor spelling, I don't have the book here) and caused them to change and grow (within a container called a reliquary. They were still less than spirits so the shamans still payed little attention.
Then, 50 years ago the first level 10 reliquary was broken in an accident. The now powerful spirit survived and is still growing in power. The spirit was, in life, a king that was all but worshipped after his death. And now this spirit is becoming the world's first god do to that adolation. Gleaners are now hunted, bodies burned and reliquaries destroyed. But the clerics and gleaners who want to create gods that will both give them power and provide a more stable source of safety for the masses (the spirits are very fickle).
So which side would you play on and why?
