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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 1935243" data-attributes="member: 2209">The gods in my game are socially important but functionally irrelevant. Everyone believes they provide power to their followers and you have to follow their churches and dogma to get clerical power, but it is not so. The gods can gain some power from worship so they like this belief system. The churches use it to bolster their own importance. However divine power is actually tapped directly and does not come from the gods. All clerics are actually godless clerics at base for the true source of their powers. The gods and churches only provide a focus and training in tapping this power, they are not truly needed. However most everybody including clerics believes that most clerics gain their powers directly from gods and that godless clerics are rare exceptions powered by faith in some unknown manner.Faith isn't even necessary in my game, everyone pretty much believes it is but actually divine is just a different flavor of magic as arcane and psionic are.So in my game you can worship false gods and still get power, or worship demons or dragons or spirit ancestors or be devoted to abstract causes, or for the truly enlightened, not worship at all.This also explains how a cleric can have powers not attributed to their god. The class is more important than the focal deity.</blockquote>