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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 265049" data-attributes="member: 63">I kinda agree with Elder Basilisk.  My setting has as much diversity in religion and magic as the real world has in its history.  There are several nations that follow Christianity as their state religion (with a few small changes made to fit the different geography of my world).  A lot of roving Orcs are the Herethim, the equivalent to Old Testament Jews who wandered until God would bless them with the promised land.  I also have the various Elvish religions, almost all of which are based upon an eight-faceted structure of reality, with 8 primary gods united in a single essence, and numerous lesser gods handling the smaller details of the world.Many Gnomish cultures are animists, revering spirits much the same way tribal Africans or Native Americans do, believing that a properly worshipped or appeased spirit can grant a type of magic appropriate to it.Then there are a few mixed-race nations with general polytheistic beliefs.  One distant continent on which magic does not function has a modernized version of Mayan-Aztecan-Olmecan beliefs, complete with ritual executions of criminals, freaks, and the mentally insane, to appease the gods.And of course Dragons, many of whom either believe they themselves are gods, or who worship the spirit of an ancient, dead dragon whose blood flows through the veins of all living creatures.Or so they think.Everyone's magic works fine.  A few people do things a little differently, as befits their beliefs, but all magic works just fine.  In order to avoid complications, I just don't say who's right, if anyone is.  I mean, in the real world, everyone believes what they believe, but they can't prove it.  Magic works the same way in my world: even if you see a clear, obvious 'miracle' that someone claims is the blessing of their god, any other person who disagrees with them can easily get away by thinking, "He's using witchcraft," or "He's just a charlatan," or "Big deal, priests of a dozen other religions can do the sam thing."So yeah, I have a monotheistic religion or two in my setting.  In no way do I think it is an unworkable idea for fantasy.  Afterall, fantasy is just Earth with spells instead of machines, and if there can be monotheistic religions here, well then . . . why not in fantasy?</blockquote>

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