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<blockquote data-quote="jerichothebard" data-source="post: 1455812" data-attributes="member: 4705"><p>IMC, there is one god - ORB - and he draws his power from the worshippers. When his church warred on the other churches, and won, their gods fell, and he went from a mid-level god to a highly powered (the only) god. They won the war not through divine intervention, but through sheer mortal tactical genius.</p><p></p><p>Divine power is a potent force - ORB draws a spark from each worshipper's prayer, and then focuses it and returns it to his servants in concentrated form. </p><p></p><p>However, implicit in the setting is that this is a created world, which came into being through the sheer will of an over-being, who wove together the elements and the arcane and divine to create a pocket world, and seeded it with the mortal races.</p><p></p><p>"Modern" scripture has muddled it to the point where that over-being is now almost always thought of as the same as ORB. (blame the translation from Celestial to Common, along with some "editing"... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) It wasn't... But the over-god has not concerned himself with this world in a looooooong time.</p><p></p><p>I am not sure if the old gods are actually dead, or just greatly diminished. I have made a point of stealing the constellations=gods trick from dragonlance, and there are no stars left in the sky. ORB is the god of the sun and moon, so has no constellation.</p><p></p><p>(Side note - I am DMing a bunch of total newbies, so they don't even know I stole that constellation bit!)</p><p></p><p>In the end, I like the idea that the buck stops with the mortal races - that their god of harmony and healing (and war, incidentally, a portfolio he picked up along the way for obvious reasons) exists and does good work in the world because they give him the power to do so. It seems to make religion much more relevant.</p><p></p><p>I suspect I would be a far more religious man IRL if the same were true here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jerichothebard, post: 1455812, member: 4705"] IMC, there is one god - ORB - and he draws his power from the worshippers. When his church warred on the other churches, and won, their gods fell, and he went from a mid-level god to a highly powered (the only) god. They won the war not through divine intervention, but through sheer mortal tactical genius. Divine power is a potent force - ORB draws a spark from each worshipper's prayer, and then focuses it and returns it to his servants in concentrated form. However, implicit in the setting is that this is a created world, which came into being through the sheer will of an over-being, who wove together the elements and the arcane and divine to create a pocket world, and seeded it with the mortal races. "Modern" scripture has muddled it to the point where that over-being is now almost always thought of as the same as ORB. (blame the translation from Celestial to Common, along with some "editing"... ;) ) It wasn't... But the over-god has not concerned himself with this world in a looooooong time. I am not sure if the old gods are actually dead, or just greatly diminished. I have made a point of stealing the constellations=gods trick from dragonlance, and there are no stars left in the sky. ORB is the god of the sun and moon, so has no constellation. (Side note - I am DMing a bunch of total newbies, so they don't even know I stole that constellation bit!) In the end, I like the idea that the buck stops with the mortal races - that their god of harmony and healing (and war, incidentally, a portfolio he picked up along the way for obvious reasons) exists and does good work in the world because they give him the power to do so. It seems to make religion much more relevant. I suspect I would be a far more religious man IRL if the same were true here. [/QUOTE]
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