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I corrected myself afterwards

It was tongue in cheek. A better way of describing it would be Theme no, culture yes.

For the Knights of Solamnia they were

So to be exact with defiling in the revised 2ED Dark Sun, when memorizing you make the choice to defile then make an Int check. On a failure lose effective spell level on spell. On a success cast as normal. On a success greater than amount based on local terrain, cast at higher spell level. Also...

This is from the revised edition

It's thematic in that it is easier and quicker to cast a spell when defiling. Add in the environmental destruction it is quite thematic. Also keep in mind I am dredging this up from memories 2 odd decades old

Bards were more poisoner assassins

Keep in mind that if you got hit whilst casting the spell failed and you lost the slot, also you could not change what you did that round. Anything that reduced the casting time segments was powerful.

Basically Mages had to choose to defile or not. This increased or decreased the casting time.

I would like to learn more about the divine that was lost to Athas.

I think adding hope in the form of a successful revolution in one of the city states actually made things darker in that the other Sorcerer Kings cracked down to make sure that the same thing didn't happen again and the council that ruled after the fall of the sorcerer king was eating itself.

For Darksun to work bad guys have to be allowed to do bad things and players have to have freedom of choice on how to react to bad things despite push back from bad guy and society.

Didn't the Orcs get genocided with several other races in the distant past of the cannon?

Is it me or if equipped correctly and played in the right way the Gladiator subclass could be used as good Swashbuckler substitute?

I think people need to accept outside of epic level games a dragon alongside a character will never fit the power level. You will only get something unsatisfying that is skinned to look like a dragon.

I can see a Dragon mount as an epic boon, give everyone a pet thus avoiding the party balance issue.

What we are saying is the goon squad you desire is problematic for the balance of the game and other players. We are seeking compromises for it not be a problem time, balance and spotlight wise.