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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 6638476" data-attributes="member: 509">In my current game, while there are gods who are worshipped, they are merely powerful (mortal) beings who have ascended to a higher plane of existence--basically like Mystara's Immortals. Being worshipped gives you power, so many (but not all) such beings seek out establishing religions centered around themselves. Archfey, Demon Lords, etc, are all examples of such beings.Not all religions worship these immortals--many religions have no real basis in reality, and many worship regional spirits, The Source/Presence/One True All-Encompassing God, the Teachings of Prophet Bob, etc.Clerics, though, are not connected to any of those at all, although they may align themselves with such powers if it suits them. Clerics are the chosen/imbued champions of the Cosmic Functions, astral concepts given existence by the minds of mortals. Clerics' jobs are not to promote worship, but rather to lobby for these concepts around the cosmos--a Cleric of the War/Life domain' purpose is to promote War or Life, however he feels this is best done, as these Concepts are not sentient per se and as such do not have opinions on the matter. Rather, they exist as metaphysical hyper-memes, who "want" to spread to as many minds as possible like a virus "wants" to spread itself to as many host bodies as possible.Each Cleric will have his own reasonings for why they think spreading War/Life/whatever is important, but it doesn't need to be rational. They may just really like War.</blockquote>

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