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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KJW" data-source="post: 3012769" data-attributes="member: 43457">Unforeseen results, at least unforeseen by mortals.  A deity may allow corruption in his faith, knowing that this corruption will lead to some incident that will produce needed reforms for the future of the faith.  IMC the successful faiths are the ones in which their mortal followers have more authority and independence, the less successful faiths are the ones in which the deities micromanage.  Your LG deity may allow this corruption to make those who are true by forcing them to standup to the corrupt leadership.  Now this does not mean the corrupt clerics still have divine powers from their 'god,' but that doesn't mean they will step down.  Furthermore, the dark powers could be posing as angelic beings and giving them 'alternative' powers.  The LG god is obviously taking a chance, but he is a greater deity he knows this will most likely all turn out well in the end.  The gods work in mysterious ways, only because they can see how things will turn out and mortals can't.  This is a tool you can use for deities to do all sorts of things that make no sense due to their alignments.  It really isn't the ends justifying the means, as the fact that due to greater sense of things the future, present, and past blur together.  Anyway just a thought.</blockquote>