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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 6535548" data-attributes="member: 63"><p>Think of the Clergy as being like the Catholic Church, with gods instead of saints. There are a lot of saints people revere, but a few folks are particularly devoted to one; it would be the same with gods in the Clergy. For the Old Faith, it's similar but much less structured. Every town or region might claim its own gods from folklore, and a lot of them might have gotten bundled together over the years through syncretism. We intentionally did not provide a list of gods because both PF and 4e came with their own god lists, and we figured why fight against that. Use whatever names you want for the gods. he </p><p></p><p>Mind you, no one in several thousand years has actually seen a god, and it's fair for people to question whether they even exist. Maybe the power of divine casters is drawn from the shared faith of millions of believers. Maybe there actually are gods out there trying to help common people on this small world as best they can. Maybe it's just the same energy arcane casters use, but divine casters fool themselves into thinking it's holy.</p><p></p><p> </p><p>There is no 'royal house' in Risur, because the monarchy is not hereditary. Rather, each monarch picks a successor he thinks is of merit. The family of the monarch becomes nobility.</p><p></p><p>In any case, if you want a paladin with ties to the monarchy, there's a position known as the Green Knight, which is tasked as the royal bodyguard. Since the kings and queens themselves tend to be pretty bad-ass, the bodyguards are very elite. It is said there can only be one green knight at a time, but due to a cleverly-worded pact with the Unseen Court many years ago, whoever holds that title cannot die unless the sun is out. Perhaps one of the former knights founded an order of paladins. They could revere whatever god or gods you want, but it would probably be a Risuri god of the Old Faith, not one from the Clergy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 6535548, member: 63"] Think of the Clergy as being like the Catholic Church, with gods instead of saints. There are a lot of saints people revere, but a few folks are particularly devoted to one; it would be the same with gods in the Clergy. For the Old Faith, it's similar but much less structured. Every town or region might claim its own gods from folklore, and a lot of them might have gotten bundled together over the years through syncretism. We intentionally did not provide a list of gods because both PF and 4e came with their own god lists, and we figured why fight against that. Use whatever names you want for the gods. he Mind you, no one in several thousand years has actually seen a god, and it's fair for people to question whether they even exist. Maybe the power of divine casters is drawn from the shared faith of millions of believers. Maybe there actually are gods out there trying to help common people on this small world as best they can. Maybe it's just the same energy arcane casters use, but divine casters fool themselves into thinking it's holy. There is no 'royal house' in Risur, because the monarchy is not hereditary. Rather, each monarch picks a successor he thinks is of merit. The family of the monarch becomes nobility. In any case, if you want a paladin with ties to the monarchy, there's a position known as the Green Knight, which is tasked as the royal bodyguard. Since the kings and queens themselves tend to be pretty bad-ass, the bodyguards are very elite. It is said there can only be one green knight at a time, but due to a cleverly-worded pact with the Unseen Court many years ago, whoever holds that title cannot die unless the sun is out. Perhaps one of the former knights founded an order of paladins. They could revere whatever god or gods you want, but it would probably be a Risuri god of the Old Faith, not one from the Clergy. [/QUOTE]
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