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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6423186" data-attributes="member: 4937">Well, first, if you have distant deities that are not knowable and active knowable intermediaries, almost certainly you will have those intermediaries worshiped in some form as at the least intercessors.  So in point of fact, you won't have a world that views religion in the way you seem to think.  Instead, they'll see the world as being a celestial bureaucracy with distant unapproachable sovereign gods worshiped and served by a great number of more accessible and immediate small gods.  You'll actually end up with a highly polytheistic religion in terms of its rites and practices, with all sorts of rituals around summoning up the right servitors and making bargains to communicate up the chain of celestial (or infernal) being.  Secondly, this is at a certain level a matter of preference.  I'm not sure what you mean by "better ideas".   What really matters is, "What stories do you wish to tell about man's relationship with the divine?"   Probably a lot of that will depend upon your own beliefs regarding your actual relationship with the divine, as they get filtered to a fantasy setting.   You can tell a lot about how a person conceives the divine by what they create as a fantasy of the divine if you know where to look.   Consider the differences between say Charles Stross and JRR Tolkien, or Gene Wolfe and Arthur C Clark.   So at that level, I can hardly consider anything more deeply personal and introspective than the mythology a fantasist creates for their setting.   I'm not going to try to tell you what to do.   However, I will say that on the surface, either of your choices is fine and creative and could serve you well depending on what you intend to do with it.I'd be glad to help you flesh out either setting in a sensible way if I had any clue what theological terrain you wanted to explore.</blockquote>

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