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<blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8514121" data-attributes="member: 7023887"><p>What are you talking about? Eberron has that. It has a ton of those. From the top of my head, here are all of the "small regional/ethnographic cults/faiths" that exist in Eberron:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Blood of Vol/Order of the Emerald Claw (primarily followed in Karrnath and the Lhazaar Principalities)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Ghaash'Kala Orcs of the Demon Wastes that worship the "Kalak Shash" (the Silver Flame)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Shulassakar (couatl yuan-ti) that also follow the Silver Flame, but with more rainbow-based imagery, as they focus more on the Couatls that sacrificed themselves to create the Silver Flame.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Dragons of Argonnessen that worship the constellations of the various dragon-gods (Bahamut, Io, Chronepsis, etc), who they believe created the Sovereign Host.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Kalashtar that follow the Path of Light</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Riedran state-religion of the Path of Inspiration</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Undying Court of Aerenal</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Tairnadal Spirits of the Past</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Changeling following of The Traveler</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Warforged "Becoming God" that they're trying to bring into existence by worshipping them</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Blades, a cult that worships the Lord of Blades</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Vulkoor-worshipping Drow of Xen'drik</li> </ul><p>And Eberron's approach to polytheism is actually more accurate than the Forgotten Realms'. In the Forgotten Realms, there's this giant pantheon of dozens of gods, and most people just choose one to worship in a monotheistic way. In Eberron, most people just worship the whole pantheon of the Dark Six, the Soveriegn Host, the Dragon-God-Constellations of Argonnessen, or one of the other pantheons. Some people do prefer certain gods in the pantheon to others, but they worship the whole pantheon, like in real polytheism.</p><p></p><p>Eberron's cosmology <em>is </em>messy, asymmetrical, and more realistic than most fantasy pantheons. It has a ton of different pantheons, gods, faiths, and culture-specific religions. However, it is still more manageable than the Forgotten Realms because it purposefully avoids redundancy when it comes to religions like this.</p><p></p><p>Fantasy religions can be super-complicated, realistic, and messy without being redundant, like the Forgotten Realms pantheon is. And it is even pretty easy to understand and comprehend, at least compared to the Forgotten Realms' mess of ever-changing and often-overlapping gods and pantheons. Just because Eberron doesn't have a 3 separate deities of magic, death, and justice in the main pantheon, and three more of basically the same portfolio in off-shoot/race-specific pantheons doesn't mean that it's "worse" or "less realistic" than the Forgotten Realms pantheon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Levistus's_Leviathan, post: 8514121, member: 7023887"] What are you talking about? Eberron has that. It has a ton of those. From the top of my head, here are all of the "small regional/ethnographic cults/faiths" that exist in Eberron: [LIST] [*]The Blood of Vol/Order of the Emerald Claw (primarily followed in Karrnath and the Lhazaar Principalities) [*]The Ghaash'Kala Orcs of the Demon Wastes that worship the "Kalak Shash" (the Silver Flame) [*]The Shulassakar (couatl yuan-ti) that also follow the Silver Flame, but with more rainbow-based imagery, as they focus more on the Couatls that sacrificed themselves to create the Silver Flame. [*]The Dragons of Argonnessen that worship the constellations of the various dragon-gods (Bahamut, Io, Chronepsis, etc), who they believe created the Sovereign Host. [*]The Kalashtar that follow the Path of Light [*]The Riedran state-religion of the Path of Inspiration [*]The Undying Court of Aerenal [*]The Tairnadal Spirits of the Past [*]The Changeling following of The Traveler [*]The Warforged "Becoming God" that they're trying to bring into existence by worshipping them [*]The Blades, a cult that worships the Lord of Blades [*]The Vulkoor-worshipping Drow of Xen'drik [/LIST] And Eberron's approach to polytheism is actually more accurate than the Forgotten Realms'. In the Forgotten Realms, there's this giant pantheon of dozens of gods, and most people just choose one to worship in a monotheistic way. In Eberron, most people just worship the whole pantheon of the Dark Six, the Soveriegn Host, the Dragon-God-Constellations of Argonnessen, or one of the other pantheons. Some people do prefer certain gods in the pantheon to others, but they worship the whole pantheon, like in real polytheism. Eberron's cosmology [I]is [/I]messy, asymmetrical, and more realistic than most fantasy pantheons. It has a ton of different pantheons, gods, faiths, and culture-specific religions. However, it is still more manageable than the Forgotten Realms because it purposefully avoids redundancy when it comes to religions like this. Fantasy religions can be super-complicated, realistic, and messy without being redundant, like the Forgotten Realms pantheon is. And it is even pretty easy to understand and comprehend, at least compared to the Forgotten Realms' mess of ever-changing and often-overlapping gods and pantheons. Just because Eberron doesn't have a 3 separate deities of magic, death, and justice in the main pantheon, and three more of basically the same portfolio in off-shoot/race-specific pantheons doesn't mean that it's "worse" or "less realistic" than the Forgotten Realms pantheon. [/QUOTE]
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