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<blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 7956995" data-attributes="member: 6855114"><p>Almost the entirety of the worship toward evil deity is the kind of worship you do to placate that deity into not acting against you, your family or your community. No one in his rightful mind will worship an evil deity for what it is supposed to do. You want the deity of plagues to be calm and at peace with you. Not the other way around. That is in our world. There are the rare case where you might want the deity of plague to affect a rival person/community/nation but that is not the norm.</p><p></p><p>In a world where magic and gods are real and have temporal powers that can be seen and felt; it is an other matter entirely. Now we have people that know that the deity will answer their prayer. Let's take Hextor for example. Evil God of War, Discord, Conflict and Fitness in Greyhawk. In a martial society, this god is revered in two ways. The first is the placating thing. You want the god to not bring the ugliness of war, discord and conflict in your life/country. A cleric of Hextor will insist about frequent sacrifices but not necessarily persons of his country but of captured enemies. In time of peace, the clerics will be charming and warn of the ugliness of war and of the importance of staying fit for war. You wish a conflict to end fast? Worship Hextor, placate him with offerings so that he will make sure things go your way. A very tempting prospect.</p><p></p><p>In times of war, the true ugliness of Hextor will come to the fore. Sacrifices of prisoners will be frequent and bloody. Massacres of enemies (both in soldiers and in civilians) will be more frequent by armies with clerics of Hextor in their midst. Hextor is all about the ugliness of war and the unnecessary bloodshed that comes with it. The clerics of Hextor will go to war with passion and might not hesitate to suggest that war is necessary to solve problems. If things goes to well, they will not hesitate to sow discords and conflicts and even force events into full fledged wars. Of course they will make it appear as if someone else is responsible and they will make sure that the events will not be attributable to them. As a Lawful Evil fate, Hextor will maintain a servile facade as they are the servant of the country (in appearance only).</p><p></p><p>The fate is opened in the Great Kingdom but in other places, the fate of Hextor is seen for what it really is. In the Great Kingdom, the fate of Hextor was kept in check by the fate of Pholtus, Heironeous and a few others. When Ivid took the throne, he put the fate of Hextor to the front, unchecked and uncontrolled. This led to the events known as the Greyhawk wars and the fall of the kingdom. As said in an other campaign setting: "Evil always turns upon itself."</p><p></p><p>Hextor is one of the most tolerated evil deity and yet, its ugliness and evilness is evident. Only a power hungry individual bordering on psychopathy would worship him. They will be pleasant in times of peace but their ugliness will be evident on the battlefield. They will pretend that this is due to the ugliness of war and that monsters you have to be to protect your loved ones from the monsters fighting you. The end always justify the means for these clerics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Helldritch, post: 7956995, member: 6855114"] Almost the entirety of the worship toward evil deity is the kind of worship you do to placate that deity into not acting against you, your family or your community. No one in his rightful mind will worship an evil deity for what it is supposed to do. You want the deity of plagues to be calm and at peace with you. Not the other way around. That is in our world. There are the rare case where you might want the deity of plague to affect a rival person/community/nation but that is not the norm. In a world where magic and gods are real and have temporal powers that can be seen and felt; it is an other matter entirely. Now we have people that know that the deity will answer their prayer. Let's take Hextor for example. Evil God of War, Discord, Conflict and Fitness in Greyhawk. In a martial society, this god is revered in two ways. The first is the placating thing. You want the god to not bring the ugliness of war, discord and conflict in your life/country. A cleric of Hextor will insist about frequent sacrifices but not necessarily persons of his country but of captured enemies. In time of peace, the clerics will be charming and warn of the ugliness of war and of the importance of staying fit for war. You wish a conflict to end fast? Worship Hextor, placate him with offerings so that he will make sure things go your way. A very tempting prospect. In times of war, the true ugliness of Hextor will come to the fore. Sacrifices of prisoners will be frequent and bloody. Massacres of enemies (both in soldiers and in civilians) will be more frequent by armies with clerics of Hextor in their midst. Hextor is all about the ugliness of war and the unnecessary bloodshed that comes with it. The clerics of Hextor will go to war with passion and might not hesitate to suggest that war is necessary to solve problems. If things goes to well, they will not hesitate to sow discords and conflicts and even force events into full fledged wars. Of course they will make it appear as if someone else is responsible and they will make sure that the events will not be attributable to them. As a Lawful Evil fate, Hextor will maintain a servile facade as they are the servant of the country (in appearance only). The fate is opened in the Great Kingdom but in other places, the fate of Hextor is seen for what it really is. In the Great Kingdom, the fate of Hextor was kept in check by the fate of Pholtus, Heironeous and a few others. When Ivid took the throne, he put the fate of Hextor to the front, unchecked and uncontrolled. This led to the events known as the Greyhawk wars and the fall of the kingdom. As said in an other campaign setting: "Evil always turns upon itself." Hextor is one of the most tolerated evil deity and yet, its ugliness and evilness is evident. Only a power hungry individual bordering on psychopathy would worship him. They will be pleasant in times of peace but their ugliness will be evident on the battlefield. They will pretend that this is due to the ugliness of war and that monsters you have to be to protect your loved ones from the monsters fighting you. The end always justify the means for these clerics. [/QUOTE]
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