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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khorod" data-source="post: 637841" data-attributes="member: 1636">Interesting thought for playing an ascending character: Just as a mortal's acts will stain his soul, a god's follower's acts will stain the gods.Maybe what a mortal does in a god's name will effect the god.  Maybe not his nature- that should be pretty immutable unless the gods are agents of chaos and distrusted.But in a FR-like setting, if a god is followed by a horde of child-slaying cannibals, that would maybe affect his politics in the heavens.  Whatever the good god says, its his fault if all his followers are psychotic evil-doers.The popular way of linking the worship or actions of mortals to the power or nature of the gods is a frequently encountered convention.  It allows gods to be made part of the story without divine warfare or death.In a campaign setting like the one you've described that is not the sort of 'subtle' plot you'd need.  Since gods are all but unknown, I think it would be interesting to add agnosticism and atheism to the mix, the tensions of a society dealing with gods, and so on.  Those are things that are really hard to play with in most settings, since the gods are emphatically present.</blockquote>