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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jago" data-source="post: 6969888" data-attributes="member: 6855130">I would be okay with this, though as the youngest of Brothers, doesn't really affect me, lol*Puts on History specs and settles into his leather chair by the fireplace*If we're drawing from the Viking Age (roughly 800 to 1100 AD), it is not out of the question for Parchment and Vellum to exist and be used: Christian Monks were totally writing at this point to try and collect as much knowledge as possible (as well as writing this little thing called The Christian Bible, I hear it's an Amazon Best Seller). With that said, it would be rarer: not many people are going to have books, and paper is not going to be used for messages. The Norse cultures passed along most of their history and such through the poetic Sagas, it was nearly entirely oral, so perhaps Pantheonists do not place as much importance on writing.This means that Wizards are already a cut above others because they can read and write, which ... not many may actually be able to do, if we're going, like, 100% historic, which I don't recommend: being able to read makes a lot of things easier, BUT, it would be very cool and I'd be totally down for playing an illiterate character. Mechanically, it would probably be easy to say that in place of learning a language, you learn the written word of a language you know (so if you have a Bonus Language, you can either Read and Write Common, or you can learn to speak a different language but cannot read or write either).It would be rather ... interesting, I think, for Demiurgists to more encourage the written language (and have a greater propensity to be literate as a result), while Pantheonists are far more about their Oral Tradition, and so little need for writing beyond record keeping and perhaps certain rituals (such as runic inscriptions). Again, these are all suppositions, nothing set in stone (Eh? Ehhhhh?).I would imagine that the Demiurgists (as discussed above) would not be so constrained by doctrine as to shy away from the absolute advantage Magic gives to their people. I mean, if the Pantheonists have no problems beating drums to summon thunderstorms or shaping into the form of a mighty bear that breathes fire, the Demiurgists have a long, uphill battle if they ever want to control this land. If anything, they may very well have a similar outlook to the story of Odin, that magic comes from their god, is a part of their god, and is their very right to use. After all, they're the ones with the long and elaborate rituals (like Clerics or Wizards when they cast spells), they're the ones with the pure force of Faith (like Sorcerers), they're the ones most in touch with life around them (like Druids), etc. Especially if you factor in Saints, hells, there may very well be a Patron Saint of Wizards (or at least "Of Knowledge", where the realm of magic falls under).</blockquote>

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