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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 2661946" data-attributes="member: 9410">These questions have to be answered specifically...  Many people will worship The White Lady of Healing, and moreso if she, herself, is likely to appear among the faithful.  Few folks will be willing to worship Mallia, Mother of Disease, and most of them only for self-protective reasons, even if she appears to her worshippers.  The White Lady would be worshipped more in gratitude, while the Disease Mother more out of fear.  Mallia would grant protection from her plagues, as long as her will was law.  The White Lady would offer healing to all (or at least the worthy).  Mallia would penalize non-observance harshly (as she is evil), while The White Lady wouldn't, at all (but her power might be lessened - which has its own penalties)!One of the benefits of belonging to a church, temple, whatever, would be... whatever the deity bids the clergy to give/do for the membership...  The Good ones would probably get free healing, or at least the ability to get healing as it's available, and work it off, later.  Non-members would have to pay, up front.  The goddess of Harp-Magic would probably offer lessons in Harping, as well (among other things).Could you "make up" for missing a ceremony?  Again, it depends upon the godling in question.  Mallia would take a dim view of this, save with her highest-level servants (who, for all they did for her, would get some slack, as losing them would be a big blow to her).  Good deities would prefer more zealous attendance, but how they enforced it would depend upon their alignment, and what the ritual was for...  Ones that actually powered something would be more important than a Wednsday night prayer meeting.  Of course, Lawfuls would be stricter than Chaotics, but the LG ones would have to make allowances for Human (Elven, Dwarven, etc.) weakness.If the Winter King might actually appear at the Winter Festival, whether it was a draw or not would depend entirely upon what he did when he arrived...  Freezing people solid would be a "push", while passing out Snow-Diamonds would be a "pull".  Is he good?  Evil?  Neutral?All of these questions depend very much upon the godling in question.</blockquote>

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