AuldDragon
Adventurer
AuldDragon, another excellent entry! As a big fan of your work, I'm glad you're still running with this.
Thanks!
A minor note, the seventh bullet point under the entry for shadowblade special abilities refers to them as "nightblades."
I've fixed it in my working document. Thanks!
Also, I notice that you include a smattering of scro worshippers among the racial entries for orc deities. I have to wonder how true that'd actually be, given that the scro have, as a society, rejected the "old gods" in favor of Dukagsh.
Even if there are some heretics among scro society (which is unlikely, given the totalitarian nature of Dukagsh's religion, but still possible), it's hard to imagine them actually becoming worshippers to the point of receiving divine benefits (e.g. clerical magic)...at least while in Dukagshspace (see Dragon Annual [URL=http://www.enworld.org/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=1]#1 [/URL] ); heretic scro in other crystal spheres are still possible.
I say that because it's implied (albeit never stated outright) that Dukagsh is the only deity with a connection to that crystal sphere (though it helps that he actually dwells within it, rather than another plane), and so other deities simply can't grant clerical benefits to priests there...it's highly unlikely that the scro military would allow for a temple to a foreign god to exist within their crystal sphere for a year, which (IIRC) is how long it takes a foreign god to establish themselves in a new sphere.
I do not think the Scro could fully stamp out the old faiths, especially when Luthic, Shargaas, and Yurtrus can be complimentary to the faith of Dukagsh. The old faith was certainly established in the sphere in the time between the fleet arrival and the death and apotheosis of Dukagsh, and Dukagsh is not powerful enough to close the sphere to them, so there should still be some worship of them, even if underground and hidden. In addition, it is entirely possible that those scro who choose to follow the old faiths have left the sphere for other places to live. Basically, my intent is to allow all such possibilities to exist.
Jeff