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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9811080" data-attributes="member: 58172">I think it is ok for each setting to handle sacred traditions differently. This is why it is vital to prevent baking religious assumptions into the core rules. The core must be setting agnostic - in order that - each setting can explore what the players find interesting. Regarding the Forgotten Realms setting. There are no "gods" sotospeak. There are "portfolios".It is the portfolio that is divine, regardless of the individuals or groups who are representing and managing the portfolio. The portfolios can be abandoned or stolen or exchanged. The portfolios themselves lack free will. As such, it is easy to understand each portfolio as something like a jungian archetype. The archetype, the symbol, is an impersonal cosmic force.In the setting, it can be that a Material Humanoid can be "divinized" (gaining the Celestial creature type) by becoming responsible to represent the cosmic force of a particular portfolio. This Humanoid has free will, but this portfolio does not. To wear the "uniform" of a potfolio and to deal with needs of all the adherents who are devoted to the portfolio, invites inner conflict.In some ways, the symbolic persona of the portfolio is genuinely part of who the Humanoid is. But also the Humanoid is more than this one persona. Conversely, the Humanoid is genuinely part of the cosmic force, an expression of it. But also, the force is cosmically more than this particular individual. To represent a divine portfolio is an ongoing struggle that endlessly demands an effort to maintain integrity. The Humanoid must be true to expressing the archetype, but also must be true to oneself as a complex free will Humanoid. Certain situations make it impossible to do both. So there is a need to continually return to the archetype.</blockquote>

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