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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6685867" data-attributes="member: 92511">Something else to consider, if you are looking for a courtly...well, court/trial with the castellan serving as judge (wit ha cleric of Pelor offering counsel) and an actual "witchhunter" serving as prosecutor...what you are talking about for "proof" is certainly NOT what would be considered "proof" in a court today. "Circumstantial", at BEST. "Hearsay", in most cases. Rarely was there any kind of spellbook with demonic inscriptions found to say "Hey, lookie here! PROOF!"Got a mole/blemish/random skin "growth"/BIRTHMARK, even, that's large/dark/bumpy enough somewhere [normally hidden by clothes, since you a were such an evil deceptive person, obviously it had to be "hidden/secret" from respectable folk] on your body? You're a WITCH! Anything that is unusual/unique/strange material found in your possession/home/living quarters/places you were known to frequent...things as innocuous an especially fine goblet/chalice, writings in languages people don't recognize, basic household cooking and/or medicinal herbs...or maybe a hidden cache of gold coins...Where'd a simple farm woman amass a bag of riches like this?! Consorting with devils and wicked faeries/spirits that do their bidding, of course! Creatures that turn hay into gold for them or [better yet] steal from their neighbors for them! At BEST you're a thief...but you're obviously a thieving witch.Speaking of neighbors...anyone in town they have a feud with? Give the stink eye to once? Any neighbors get sick? Their livestock get sick? Their crops fail? WIIIITCHHH!!!Anyone in town you HELPED, by medicine/healing/"tending" or (since this is a D&D world) MAGICAL means?! You're a witch.In a D&D world, I would expect any possession or association with known magical beings (like elves or gnomes, forget about tieflings or dragonborn!) would be "obvious evidence" of your consorting with the dark powers with which these wicked otherworldly beings obviously engage. Have a fine elvin made cloak? Witch. Why do you possess Gnome-made shoes? Witch.  Not to mention, this "cleric of a god noone's ever heard of" cover story....weak...sauce...That's going to fly in a trial as long as it takes the witchhunter to say the word "WITCH!" At BEST the lawful good castellan would defer to the cleric/church of Pelor to say whether or not their deity actually exists.If the Peloran cleric is a just/fairminded/good person, maybe he will force a recess until he can contact his temple/archives/sages for confirmation of whether or not this proposed being is, in fact, a) real at all and b) a deity if it is real...and thus worthy of the basic deference -as representatives of the ACTUAL deities- required to all clerics (the cleric of pelor isn't going to want to rule that clerics can just summarily be assaulted and accused because of others' ignorance or a witchunter's say so) And naturally ordeals/torture to the cleric and his acolytes until they break/confess or die.But nothing presented at the trial needs be anything that would hold up in a courtroom today as "proof."</blockquote>

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