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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9752997" data-attributes="member: 725">No it isn't. Even in our real world we have people who believe the world is flat and most regular people wouldn't understand string theory. We also believe and have faith in technology and science (our religion?). In theory we could learn the science and technology ourselves, but in reality most people do not have the capability, the means, nor the interest. They believe what others say.In a high fantasy world, most of the regular people haven't seen the gods walk the earth. They are not clerics of a god. They see the magic the clerics weave, but so do the wizards and bards in ways they don't understand. And the level of education of the average person in that fantasy world is also not very high. Thus they also rely on faith and what more powerful people say is the 'truth'.Just like they did in the middle/dark ages in our world. The church and powerful people said that god existed, so people 'believed' and had faith, or at least paid lip service to god(s). Either due to social pressure, fear of retribution, legal requirement, a 'better save then sorry' policy, or actual true faith in god(s).How the gods were done in FR, 2e probably did them the most extensively, was interesting, but showed them more from the gods perspective. Less so from the perspective from their churches. Imho Green Ronin did the best pantheon in 'The Book of the Righteous', where you got a coherent panteon from the perspective of the churches.</blockquote>

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