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Message: <blockquote data-quote="an_idol_mind" data-source="post: 3878267" data-attributes="member: 43749">My homebrew features a monotheitstic religion. The one goddess of the world is worshipped by many different races under many different aspects. Her actual alignment is unknown, or she's simply beyond what mortals categorize as good and evil. Rules-wise, I let her clerics choose any two domains that they think best represents their own form of worship. There are a few schisms as well -- for example, humans believe that a powerful human hero merged with the goddess's essence, and now worship that individual, while elves reject such dogma. There are also a variety of other powers worshipped, most of which are angelic or demonic entities.One thing that seems to help is that the setting emphasizes that strong faith and devotion grants divine power, rather than direct divine influence. That helps explain why there are so many different worshippers of one deity, and why said deity doesn't just hand clerical spells down to the people who best suit her own (unknowable) ideology.</blockquote>