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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bganon" data-source="post: 6759033" data-attributes="member: 60886">Well, the word is "patron".  In-character, a patron isn't something you get to choose, any more than I get to walk up to some rich dude and "pick" them to sponsor my career.  You might try to appeal to someone specific, but the patron picks you.  If you're a good farmer, the farm god wants your soul and chooses you.  If you're a murderous thug, the god of murder wants your soul and chooses you.So to be without a patron and "faithless" means that you're somehow so undesirable that no god even wants your soul.  You're a dedicated farmer who nonetheless burns their crops.  A murderer that refuses to land the killing blow.  You're not just faithless to the gods, you're faithless to yourself, and the gods want nothing to do with your messed-up soul.  So into the Wall you go.The noble hero who does great things for justice while loudly proclaiming what jerks all the gods are?  They might wind up with a patron whether they acknowledge it or not.  Given the kind of things such a character might face, I don't think it'd be weird for Ilmater to take them in.  And it's Ilmater, he's probably fine with being hated even by his most favored PC.</blockquote>