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<blockquote data-quote="DogBackward" data-source="post: 3640390" data-attributes="member: 50642"><p>I once had an idea for an Archivist that I never got to play. Perhaps I could live vicariously through some guy I don't know, who's probably half-way around the world, and has no clue who the hell I am...</p><p></p><p>The basic idea was that this Archivist (I usually play humans, but an elf works just fine) wasn't the type to worship. He didn't really like the devotion and ridiculous rituals required by the countless deities. He was, however, absolutely fascinated with religion. He loved to find out not only why people worshipped the gods, but how, and he grew even more excited as he learned the details behind different pantheons and individual deities. This Archivist doesn't <em>worship</em> the gods, he <em>studies</em> them.</p><p></p><p>Thing is, with all of his research, he's found a few interesting details. Tiny clues, things that would mean nothing to most. But then, this man isn't most, what with his sky-high Intelligence, and the meaning of these clues becomes more and more obvious the more of them he finds. Everybody knows that, together, the gods created this world and all the others. What nobody knows, save for your Archivist, is that something else may well have created the gods...</p><p></p><p>Your reason for the epic adventuring would be to find out more about this possible higher entity. Is it real? If so, why did it create the gods? Is it even sentient? What are its plans for the multiverse now? Do the gods themselves know of this being's existance? And so on and so forth...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DogBackward, post: 3640390, member: 50642"] I once had an idea for an Archivist that I never got to play. Perhaps I could live vicariously through some guy I don't know, who's probably half-way around the world, and has no clue who the hell I am... The basic idea was that this Archivist (I usually play humans, but an elf works just fine) wasn't the type to worship. He didn't really like the devotion and ridiculous rituals required by the countless deities. He was, however, absolutely fascinated with religion. He loved to find out not only why people worshipped the gods, but how, and he grew even more excited as he learned the details behind different pantheons and individual deities. This Archivist doesn't [i]worship[/i] the gods, he [i]studies[/i] them. Thing is, with all of his research, he's found a few interesting details. Tiny clues, things that would mean nothing to most. But then, this man isn't most, what with his sky-high Intelligence, and the meaning of these clues becomes more and more obvious the more of them he finds. Everybody knows that, together, the gods created this world and all the others. What nobody knows, save for your Archivist, is that something else may well have created the gods... Your reason for the epic adventuring would be to find out more about this possible higher entity. Is it real? If so, why did it create the gods? Is it even sentient? What are its plans for the multiverse now? Do the gods themselves know of this being's existance? And so on and so forth... [/QUOTE]
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