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<blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 5605079" data-attributes="member: 386">In my game the gods are obsessed with certain things being a certain way.&nbsp; They have no ability to create, but they can alter or manipulate what's already there.&nbsp; When the primordials created the world, they wanted it to work in the &quot;right&quot; way.Gods don't have any special powers that they confer on others.&nbsp; Prayers do wondrous things, though.PRAYER is what fuels the divine character’s most powerful abilities.&nbsp; Prayers are short maxims that represent the beliefs of the divine character.&nbsp; Within each prayer is a word or two of Supernal; it is the combination of the word of power with the character’s will that forces reality to conform to the divine character’s wishes.

Most prayers are well-known.&nbsp; The average peasant knows quite a few and employs them every day.&nbsp; The difference between the average peasant and the divine character is that the peasant does not have the strength of devotion that is required to make their will manifest.&nbsp; Years of study, intense initiation rites, strange and humbling oaths, and mind-altering substances are required to develop this ability.

The most powerful prayers require the divine character to affirm his faith with the people, guiding and leading them along his chosen path, or to perform rites that require heavy use of mind-altering substances.&nbsp; Known as “sanctified incense”, divine characters ingest, inhale, or drink strange substances blessed through secret rites.&nbsp; The sanctified incense enables the character to achieve a state of communion with his god, seeing the world as the god would have it and enabling the divine character to bring that transformation about.Basically, the gods saw that the mortal races, if properly &quot;educated&quot;, could help to change the world in the way that the gods wanted it to be.&nbsp; They taught them prayers - Words of Power - and the (false) belief that they had to act in a certain way; that belief became so strong in some people that they could change the world.So, for example, Melora doesn't have any power over the sea.&nbsp; One of her clerics, trained to believe so intensely that the sea should act in a certain way, can use the few Words of Power he knows (prayers) to make it so.&nbsp; In that way Melora can be said to control the seas of the world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LostSoul, post: 5605079, member: 386"] In my game the gods are obsessed with certain things being a certain way. They have no ability to create, but they can alter or manipulate what's already there. When the primordials created the world, they wanted it to work in the "right" way. Gods don't have any special powers that they confer on others. Prayers do wondrous things, though. [indent]PRAYER is what fuels the divine character’s most powerful abilities. Prayers are short maxims that represent the beliefs of the divine character. Within each prayer is a word or two of Supernal; it is the combination of the word of power with the character’s will that forces reality to conform to the divine character’s wishes. Most prayers are well-known. The average peasant knows quite a few and employs them every day. The difference between the average peasant and the divine character is that the peasant does not have the strength of devotion that is required to make their will manifest. Years of study, intense initiation rites, strange and humbling oaths, and mind-altering substances are required to develop this ability. The most powerful prayers require the divine character to affirm his faith with the people, guiding and leading them along his chosen path, or to perform rites that require heavy use of mind-altering substances. Known as “sanctified incense”, divine characters ingest, inhale, or drink strange substances blessed through secret rites. The sanctified incense enables the character to achieve a state of communion with his god, seeing the world as the god would have it and enabling the divine character to bring that transformation about.[/indent] Basically, the gods saw that the mortal races, if properly "educated", could help to change the world in the way that the gods wanted it to be. They taught them prayers - Words of Power - and the (false) belief that they had to act in a certain way; that belief became so strong in some people that they could change the world. So, for example, Melora doesn't have any power over the sea. One of her clerics, trained to believe so intensely that the sea should act in a certain way, can use the few Words of Power he knows (prayers) to make it so. In that way Melora can be said to control the seas of the world. [/QUOTE]

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