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<blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 7483353" data-attributes="member: 67338"><p>So my inspirations all have a lot to do with faith and religions, even if the main characters are not priests or even faithful per say. The idea of knowing about the after life or questioning it plays a big role. Since my world will not have clerics or druids for the most parts (will post more on magic NPCs latter) I get to play with this idea a bit.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Most of the 30,000 people who live in the Citadel are either atheist or agnostic(some question or don't belive in gods at all, other belive they are 'gone' or question if they are 'gone')...belief without proof is hard. However a few small religions have taken hold. Some pray to the spirits of the land like the shamans of the ashen wastes, and some pray to the whispering tide of the river men. the most prevalent of the three religions though is the pantheon...old gods said to have been the gods of the elves. Sometimes the purple haired women or bald men form the storm mountains come and speak of the earth mother, but few here give any sway to that. Some times crusaders and pilgrims from the Highlands come to preach there "one above all" but that faith is very intolerant. The least common are the steel priests, or the jade priests from the south, past the land of warlocks and there strange evil religion of the sleeping god. </p><p></p><p></p><p>So, lets take a look at what I created (well stole in most cases)</p><p></p><p><strong>Spirits of the Land</strong>, and <strong>Earth Mother</strong> look like they go togather at first, but one is a monotheistic all be it pagan belief the other is polytheistic believing everything alive or not has a spirit and that many of them are 'gods' The Earth Mother is actually my Dwarven Religion, the purple haired woman and bald men from the storm mountains live in the stone cities the dwarves abandoned when they fled under the mountains where PCs may be able to find them. The Spirt of the Land is more like spirit worship and practiced by people who are really using magic out of context.</p><p></p><p><strong>Whispering Tide</strong> has a church in my opening city/sanctuary… and the priest is a hybrid deep one. The deep ones have splintered into 2 religions. In the south in the dark sea they worship Mother Hydra and are 100% evil vile monsters. Here in the river area though they are a bit more calm, they still sacrifice, but they do so slower and more carefully. This 'church' worships the alternative to Mother Hydra Shar-Ngolyeth, a long-lost deity also referred to as That Which Lurks Beneath the Waves. </p><p></p><p><strong>the pantheon</strong>has a church in my opening city/sanctuary… and is just a set of animal headed gods, the idea of them being the old gods of the elves is made up to give it more authority. In truth even though people belive in them there is 0 real about them in setting, and as such no powers are granted by them and no rituals in there names work. Ammon (Ram)Annasasi (Spider)Ash (Rhino)Bast (Cat)Bran (Raven)Oberon (Eagle)Set (Snake)Wepwawet (Wolf) </p><p> </p><p><strong>The Steel and Jade Priests</strong> ok, these are the least worked on ideas... I want to use jade like in the old Oriental Campaigns book to mitigate shadow effects, and I want these to be alchemists that lost there knowledge and remade it as a religion. </p><p></p><p><strong>The Sleeping God</strong> There is a Cthulu like being sleeping under the towers of the warlocks...they have drawn power from his madness educing dreams and they attempt to please him with sacrifices. they are monster stated NPCs (some based on Yugioh dark magican (Mahad and Mana) and Dark sage) and the closest to spell casters I come. I am using a race from Kobold press for them as well, when I post 'magic' NPCs I will talk about them more. </p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><em><u>The One Above ALL</u></em></strong> OK, so this is a Monotheistic religion that believes there god is the only true god. I want the PCs to associate it with the 3 big real world religions at first but I am drawing more from the 'lord of light' from aSoIaF. The initial introduction will make them look like zealots who like worshipers of the pantheon have no power...but there is a power granting some of them power, and some of these are 'goodish' people.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It's important to me that none of them get 'it' right. I will make up a real elven religion as well that is more Ancestor worship...but if there are real gods to this world, then no one really knows there names or prays to them. Even the things that grant powers are not 'gods' but elder powerful things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GMforPowergamers, post: 7483353, member: 67338"] So my inspirations all have a lot to do with faith and religions, even if the main characters are not priests or even faithful per say. The idea of knowing about the after life or questioning it plays a big role. Since my world will not have clerics or druids for the most parts (will post more on magic NPCs latter) I get to play with this idea a bit. Most of the 30,000 people who live in the Citadel are either atheist or agnostic(some question or don't belive in gods at all, other belive they are 'gone' or question if they are 'gone')...belief without proof is hard. However a few small religions have taken hold. Some pray to the spirits of the land like the shamans of the ashen wastes, and some pray to the whispering tide of the river men. the most prevalent of the three religions though is the pantheon...old gods said to have been the gods of the elves. Sometimes the purple haired women or bald men form the storm mountains come and speak of the earth mother, but few here give any sway to that. Some times crusaders and pilgrims from the Highlands come to preach there "one above all" but that faith is very intolerant. The least common are the steel priests, or the jade priests from the south, past the land of warlocks and there strange evil religion of the sleeping god. So, lets take a look at what I created (well stole in most cases) [B]Spirits of the Land[/B], and [B]Earth Mother[/B] look like they go togather at first, but one is a monotheistic all be it pagan belief the other is polytheistic believing everything alive or not has a spirit and that many of them are 'gods' The Earth Mother is actually my Dwarven Religion, the purple haired woman and bald men from the storm mountains live in the stone cities the dwarves abandoned when they fled under the mountains where PCs may be able to find them. The Spirt of the Land is more like spirit worship and practiced by people who are really using magic out of context. [B]Whispering Tide[/B] has a church in my opening city/sanctuary… and the priest is a hybrid deep one. The deep ones have splintered into 2 religions. In the south in the dark sea they worship Mother Hydra and are 100% evil vile monsters. Here in the river area though they are a bit more calm, they still sacrifice, but they do so slower and more carefully. This 'church' worships the alternative to Mother Hydra Shar-Ngolyeth, a long-lost deity also referred to as That Which Lurks Beneath the Waves. [B]the pantheon[/B]has a church in my opening city/sanctuary… and is just a set of animal headed gods, the idea of them being the old gods of the elves is made up to give it more authority. In truth even though people belive in them there is 0 real about them in setting, and as such no powers are granted by them and no rituals in there names work. Ammon (Ram)Annasasi (Spider)Ash (Rhino)Bast (Cat)Bran (Raven)Oberon (Eagle)Set (Snake)Wepwawet (Wolf) [B]The Steel and Jade Priests[/B] ok, these are the least worked on ideas... I want to use jade like in the old Oriental Campaigns book to mitigate shadow effects, and I want these to be alchemists that lost there knowledge and remade it as a religion. [B]The Sleeping God[/B] There is a Cthulu like being sleeping under the towers of the warlocks...they have drawn power from his madness educing dreams and they attempt to please him with sacrifices. they are monster stated NPCs (some based on Yugioh dark magican (Mahad and Mana) and Dark sage) and the closest to spell casters I come. I am using a race from Kobold press for them as well, when I post 'magic' NPCs I will talk about them more. [B][I][U]The One Above ALL[/U][/I][/B] OK, so this is a Monotheistic religion that believes there god is the only true god. I want the PCs to associate it with the 3 big real world religions at first but I am drawing more from the 'lord of light' from aSoIaF. The initial introduction will make them look like zealots who like worshipers of the pantheon have no power...but there is a power granting some of them power, and some of these are 'goodish' people. It's important to me that none of them get 'it' right. I will make up a real elven religion as well that is more Ancestor worship...but if there are real gods to this world, then no one really knows there names or prays to them. Even the things that grant powers are not 'gods' but elder powerful things. [/QUOTE]
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