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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 2778335" data-attributes="member: 9646">Religions: My SuggestionIn this world, the deities (including demon princes and archomentals) rule the world through their agents (priests and others) and their churches. There is, as a result, many struggles of cults angainst churches, of evil gods against good ones, etc. See, the traditional stuff. (BTW: the gods are closely based on that of Greyhawk - default PHB 3e deities, but with different or generic names, like "God of the Sun" for Pelor.)However, at some point, some people rebelled against the traditional control of religions and deities over all living beings. These were:1) Wizards. Originally, all magic was wielded by priests. But some individuals finally got the mean to obtain (steal?) magic/spells without the gods, and thus arcane spellcasters appeared. Nowadays they are tolerated in some places (especially if they worship a deity overseeing magic) but feared and hunted down in other places.2) The Scarlet Brotherhood. (Needs another name, but you see the idea.) Several monastery (usually well hidden) of psionic-users and monks, who draw their supernatural powers from within through arduous training. They are evil, organized into a brotherhood, and of course are opposed to the gods. However, there have been a few renegades among their order, who rebelled against their evil ways and betrayed; as such, some independant psions/monks of different alignments exist, but are very rare and don't have any organizations of their own (they usually are wanderers who flee persecutions from the brotherhood). The Scarlet Brotherhood is shunned by the churches because of the danger it represents rather than for dogma reasons.3) The Blasphemy. Two or three centuries ago, a priest of some deity abandoned his faith when he got the idea to become a deity of his own rather than follow/serve one. This character became the most powerful mortal in the world (min. 30th level epic character). He is seen as evil (whatever may be his real alignment) and an abomination by all churches, who would like to destroy him. However, in response he corrupted many priests who got the idea like him to become their own deities (taking the appropriate prestige class). Hence, this is seen as the worlst heresy and blasphemy and is universally reviled by all religions and cults. Witch-hunters are sent after such blasphemers, yet this doesn't prevent powerful priests to betray their faith and try to become gods of their own... Just to note: currently nobody has actually become a god, even while the original priest to do that may be close to it...-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Other than that, I suggest to include a Knight Templars order, Church Knights of some LG religion, with many fortresses, crusaders, etc., and whose elite knights are paladins.</blockquote>

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