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<blockquote data-quote="RoughCoronet0" data-source="post: 8597136" data-attributes="member: 7031665"><p>How the church works is something I have been contemplating in regards to my world for a little while, specifically due to the fact that faith and the granting of divine power works a bit differently in my world from the rest of the multiverse.</p><p></p><p>My gods don’t get power from belief and devotion like typical D&D gods, but instead their divine power comes from mortal souls that become willingly bound to their dominion upon death. Mortals choose their afterlife by essentially attuning themselves to a particular god or pantheon, which allows them to go to their Demi-plane instead of back through the reincarnation cycle. The more souls they collect, the stronger their divine power becomes. Because of this, the gods tend to be a bit more active in the world and more active in communicating with their followers, although how they communicate differs from god to god (they are also active in the world due to the fact that they keep the world stable after near cataclysm that threatened to rip the plane asunder and still threatens to do so should the gods powers falter). </p><p></p><p>Faith can grant those with it a small amount of power connected to their deity (ie., the piety system I have in place), but typically those with true divine magic are granted such power by the gods themselves from their own collective power source. As such, Clerics are rare and highly revered, and must truly be devoted and loyal to their gods or pantheon in order to keep said power. The only members of the church who are clerics are the Grand High Priests, of which each god has one who oversees all of the faithful across the world, and cleric that have retired and choose to spend their remaining days among the church.</p><p></p><p>Typically, if a priest or other high ranking member of the church have power, it comes from a different source.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoughCoronet0, post: 8597136, member: 7031665"] How the church works is something I have been contemplating in regards to my world for a little while, specifically due to the fact that faith and the granting of divine power works a bit differently in my world from the rest of the multiverse. My gods don’t get power from belief and devotion like typical D&D gods, but instead their divine power comes from mortal souls that become willingly bound to their dominion upon death. Mortals choose their afterlife by essentially attuning themselves to a particular god or pantheon, which allows them to go to their Demi-plane instead of back through the reincarnation cycle. The more souls they collect, the stronger their divine power becomes. Because of this, the gods tend to be a bit more active in the world and more active in communicating with their followers, although how they communicate differs from god to god (they are also active in the world due to the fact that they keep the world stable after near cataclysm that threatened to rip the plane asunder and still threatens to do so should the gods powers falter). Faith can grant those with it a small amount of power connected to their deity (ie., the piety system I have in place), but typically those with true divine magic are granted such power by the gods themselves from their own collective power source. As such, Clerics are rare and highly revered, and must truly be devoted and loyal to their gods or pantheon in order to keep said power. The only members of the church who are clerics are the Grand High Priests, of which each god has one who oversees all of the faithful across the world, and cleric that have retired and choose to spend their remaining days among the church. Typically, if a priest or other high ranking member of the church have power, it comes from a different source. [/QUOTE]
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