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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tymophil" data-source="post: 5609832" data-attributes="member: 46923">In my present campaign, religion plays a big part in everyday life. But it doesn't mean Gods do. There are two rival religions that people adhere to in my setting. The Old Gods are identified with the Natural Forces and revered through the manifestations of the grandeur of the world. People gather around some great fires at certain spots, to worship and pray. They are not given names, and are considered so alien to human being that they cannot be understood at any level.There are are also more anthropomorphic Gods that have relations to one another, and form a loose pantheon. The most important is the Sun God. He is considered to have his own will, his own agenda and shares interest in the life of mortals. So this god is not to be mistaken with the Sun.Where his power comes from ? No one knows, but he rewards the prayers on a semi-regular basis. If he doesn't answer your prayer, it means that you were simply not worth. But one thing is clear: he does answer some prayers and some miracles occur when the prayer was fervent enough. He's especially keen on destroying the undead, but he cannot protect the dead from undeath. Undeath is a real problem for humans in my setting. If a human being dies at a moment of unrest, and death very frequently creates such unrest, the dead will very likely return as a hateful undead. Only priests of the god of death can perform a ritual that will preserve the dead from undeath. Unfortunately, very few such priests exist. Priest of the Sun God can only ask their deity to beg its brother/sister/cousin (it's not clear) to welcome the dead in his/her realm.The clergy of the Sun god is quite intolerant with other religions, but it can only forbid other cults in part of the lands. His cult is also divided in a lot of sects that worship different aspects of the God with different dogmas.Those who don't believe that the Sun God is more than the (super)natural power of the sun, the light, the heat or whatever, simply think that the prayer are answered by the supernatural power of the Sun of an aspect of Nature. Morevoer, as they can see some druids and shamans perform similar miracles without revering the Sun God, they know that they are right.Most people know very little about the gods and they only trust their own beliefs (and fears) more than the tomes written by theologians.My players seem to like it, they never laugh at any man of religion they meet. They seem to like the mystery around the religion, rather than a system where they would know who are the real gods, where they get their power from, etc.</blockquote>

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