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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8837081" data-attributes="member: 6915329">They do take a direct hand in mortal affairs. They grant (or remove) spellcasting ability. They also send omens and visions. Mishakal sent Isolde a vision saying that Soth should go stop the Kingpriest.The gods decided to &quot;warn&quot; the Kingpriest to stop what he was doing by sending thirteen omens... which were completely apropos to nothing and were all over the world and failed to convey the intended message. Because when trees weep blood, deadly storms appear, fires rage, people get hunted by monsters, and animals go insane in completely different parts of the world, who would conclude that this was a sign from a good god? They didn't even have the benefit of having a guy come up to the Kingpriest and say &quot;Stop what you're doing or I'll send a disaster every day until you obey!&quot; like in the Biblical story of Moses this was clearly inspired by. It was just random disasters that could have been caused by anything, up to and including regular PC hijinks. But as incompetent as this act was, it shows that the gods were more than willing to directly intervene.Plus then, you know, they committed genocide, which is a very direct hand in mortal affairs.They could have literally written Surrender, Beldinas in the clouds. That would have been a useful sign. Not an exploding volcano potentially hundreds of miles away.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8837081, member: 6915329"] They do take a direct hand in mortal affairs. They grant (or remove) spellcasting ability. They also send omens and visions. Mishakal sent Isolde a vision saying that Soth should go stop the Kingpriest. The gods decided to "warn" the Kingpriest to stop what he was doing by sending thirteen omens... which were completely apropos to nothing and were all over the world and failed to convey the intended message. Because when trees weep blood, deadly storms appear, fires rage, people get hunted by monsters, and animals go insane in completely different parts of the world, who would conclude that this was a sign from a [I]good [/I]god? They didn't even have the benefit of having a guy come up to the Kingpriest and say "Stop what you're doing or I'll send a disaster every day until you obey!" like in the Biblical story of Moses this was clearly inspired by. It was just random disasters that could have been caused by anything, up to and including regular PC hijinks. But as incompetent as this act was, it shows that the gods were more than willing to directly intervene. Plus then, you know, they committed genocide, which is a [I]very [/I]direct hand in mortal affairs. They could have literally written [I]Surrender, Beldinas [/I]in the clouds. [I]That [/I]would have been a useful sign. Not an exploding volcano potentially hundreds of miles away. [/QUOTE]

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