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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9245220" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Ehhh... Clerics and Paladins that aren't directed by their gods. That just go out and do stuff and in a couple of cases (Aylin, Minthara, Shadowheart) it relates to the story.Meanwhile Gale gets explicit directions in what to do from Mystra even though he isn't a cleric and gets that info from Elminster who is VASTLY more capable of doing everything by himself than the entire party working together. And the directions he gets would kill him, the party, and doom the Sword Coast... but at least her goal (Destroying the Crown of Karsus) gets completed, right?The point isn't that the Realms are filled with Chekhov's Guns that can never, ever, fire, though. I mean OBVIOUSLY that's a big part of the problems of the Realms.But the core thrust of this post was: Every religious character in the game is betrayed by their deity to some degree or another. Religion within the setting serves only the purpose of disillusionment.She's not a god, but the thread wasn't originally about gods so much as religion. And her people are -absolutely- members of the Church of Vlaakith. Her divinity is kind of secondary.S'why I kinda commented on Astarion's ascension making him a "God among vampires" and just as detached as the rest of the gods, even if he never hits "Divine Rank 1" in D&D Terms.It's just kinda weird that religion in the game's core story serves only antagonistic and toxic roles. Except Selune's worship, but Selune only really intervenes to save her own people. Her daughter, her daughter's girlfriend, and the last surviving member(s) of her little town of elf werewolves and their human companions.</blockquote>

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