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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drowbane" data-source="post: 2845122" data-attributes="member: 23396">I like the idea that Divine Casters are fairly rare.  That the common priest of X is simply an Expert with appropriate skills.  That common priests are simply mortal men, either devote to thier religion or con-men tricking the populace.I also like Arcane Casters to be abit more common than Divine Casters, but thier magic is viewed as tainted.  And because they're tainted, Divine Casters have to be careful not to find themselves getting staked.At risk of turning this into a religous debate (Disclaimer!!: I'm not trying to smack down anybody's beliefs, so keep the thread on topic...) think about what supposedly happened to Jesus some two thousand years ago.  If the bible is to be believed, here is a man claiming to be the Son of God, who can prove it with Divine Miracles.  How did the people in power react?Imagine you're the Grand Pope for your church.  You live in a world with magic, but magic tends to be tricks of the Dark One (arcane magic is more common than Divine). Some yahoo comes around claiming to be a Favored Servant of your God (you're the fricking POPE!) and can perform magic tricks in his name... "Divine Miracles" he calls them.  What do you do?  Believe him and exalt his name to the masses, revealing that the Grand Pope is just a silly title... or do you have him seized, imprisoned, and then publicly executed to preserve your good name? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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