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Message: <blockquote data-quote="adembroski" data-source="post: 6091163" data-attributes="member: 18869">My current campaign makes extensive use of religious conflict. There are 4 major pantheons, two of which are each split into two major religions. Some of the gods in each pantheon cross over with one another, some are only acknowledged in a single pantheon.The dominant pantheon is the Triumvirate... 3 good gods of equal power, one god of justice and mercy, one of war and honor, another of forgiveness and salvation. This has two churches (likely more, but the region the game takes place in is fairly small), one ancient and practiced by a simple people who've really only recently emerged from barbarism, the other new and sanctioned by the dominant national power of the world.The smaller, simpler church, which incorporates much of its peoples traditions from their previous faith, is constantly having to defend itself from the larger, more powerful religion.Then there's the old faith, which is dying as a whole because of the Triumvirate. It's primarily druidic, but split into two factions. Half very typical of what we expect from a fae religion; respect for nature, life, all that wonderful jazz... the other half is into human sacrifice, sees the gods as vengeful, etc..The final 2 faiths are that of the "fae" races (those who come from an Otherword type alternate plane, "Tir N'an nOg" sort of thing), and that of the orcish races (very cruel gods). The fae religion is not really known by the triumvirate churches, but the Imperial church is actively seeking to convert the orcs.So there's internal and external conflicts in all. To take that a step further...The Imperial church has a sect called the Templars... these are warriors sponsored by priests to become Paladins. Mostly, nobility promise their lower-born sons to the church, often in exchange for absolution. The church takes them at a very young age and educates them in theology and combat, eventually ordaining them as Paladins of the Triumvirate. There are PrCs for higher ranking members but the Paladin is the basic class. The Templars tend to be very protective of the church, to the point of naivete.  If a bishop does something corrupt, the Templar will generally assume there was some unknown good reason for it. The Templars are starting to get a bit wary of some of the things the church is doing, so there'll be some internal conflict there eventually.The Bryddoni church (the more primitive Triumvirate church) is in conflict with the old druidic faith that its people held before. The frontier tribes still keep the old faith, and while the Bryddoni are tolerant of that, they still feel that the druidic faithful are "damned" so to speak, and thus try to save them.I'm babbling now, anyways, yeah, my campaign is driven pretty strongly by these factions and factions within factions. It's been fun, especially since we have a Templar and a Druid in the group.</blockquote>

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