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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 1554341" data-attributes="member: 12706">Um, I don't think they were saying Saints ARE lesser gods, so much as that that would be a good way to work it for the purposes of game mechanics.Seems to me the best way to deal with the scenario would be to have the Catholic God be the Overgod (ala AO from FR), and don't have him grant any divine magic directly AT ALL. Use the Saints for subsets of domains the Almighty grants access to. Have a point in your world's history at which a Mortal Manifestation of the Overgod played a pivotal role in saving the souls of those who live in your campaign world (maybe from a uber-lich who got WAY out of hand to the point of being worshipped himself by some, who had built some mega-soul-stealing device, or sumtin), and a belief that the world will end when that Manifestation returns to collect those who lived by His teachings. Have a head of the church that is treated as an avatar, after a manner. Have the mother of the Mortal Manifestation be revered, and have the followers of another of your religions insist that she was a representative or maybe even an avatar of their goddess.Have two "parts" to the Church. Have one that goes about helping people and teaching the path of their Lord only. Have one that goes about helping people but strongly implying that the reason they can do so is because their God gives them these advantages, while "adopting" some elements from other faiths to convert their followers, and making the elements of those faiths that are incompatible a "heresy", justifying putting practitioners to death. The first part of the Church would be concerned by what the other part is doing, but not clear enough on the issue to put a stop to it altogether, and slowly over time some of the adopted elements are becoming mainstream for all of them. This will give you a reason why some other peoples hate them, and why some are particularly close - it depends on which "face" of the church they've seen.Finally, have a particular other god, probably preferrably a neutral good war god, that a large number of the initial followers of the Christ-figure came from. You would then have a group of Christians who still want to follow their old war god's ways while revering the Christ, and another group who have more or less dismissed those ways in favor of only the teachings of their Messiah. These two groups work together, but sometimes resent each other some. (For extra points, have the church that insists that their goddess was involved with the mother of the Christ-figure also insist that the war god used to be a fertility goddess before her people were enslaved by some other group earlier in their history and she became he.)</blockquote>

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