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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 3119814" data-attributes="member: 24969">Even if something else is going on, it's still a witch hunt, the only difference is that there are actually some witches. I can think of no reason for the mage guild to go along with the church making demands of them. Cyric and dopplegangers are the least of the issues when divine casters are making demands to control arcane casters. It's going to come down to a power struggle and it doesn't matter who's in control. The only ways I can see them going along with it would be if the clerics reciprocated with consessions or if a higher power (the king) stepped in and demanded it.Perhaps it's whatever the clerics give up to the mages inorder to review their access to necromancy spells which the imposters really want. Perhaps there's infiltrators in the clerics that are the real villians. Clerics with some sort of trickery domain feat and spells to mask their true alignment and make themselves appear as known good clerics. The church comes in and "cleans up", unimportant cultists are sacrificed, and once everybody thinks things are under control is when the bad guys have won. Only the PCs find the truth and they must figure a way to expose the evilness of the clerics as well as the corruption in the mage guild. ...or just make the mages innocent of it all and make them the good guys in the end if you want to get away from being too cliched.</blockquote>