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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KirayaTiDrekan" data-source="post: 6269427" data-attributes="member: 6755061">First note - We're not using any supplements except Spell Compendium and Magic Item Compendium.  The planar domains from the Spell Compendium are not available to any clerics for now.Religions vary from race to race so here's a brief rundown...Elven religion is based around the idea that the world itself is alive and sentient after a fashion.  Every living thing on the world is a actually an extension of the consciousness of the world, sent out to learn and grow and experience.  When a living thing dies, its soul carries what it has learned back to the world, and thus the world learns.  In addition, 1,000 years ago, an elven hero named Valen led the elves in a great war against darkness.  He organized elven society into the three castes it has now and formed the ruling body of the elven people known as the Grey Council.  "In Valen's name" is an oft-spoke oath among elves.  Clerics are members of the religious caste and follow Valen's teachings.  Their spells come from the world itself and they thus have access to most domains, except Death and Evil from the PHB and Deathbound, Drow, Envy, Gluttony, Greed, Hatred, Hunger, Lust, Madness, Orc, Pestilence, Slime, Sloth, Suffering, Tyranny, Undeath, and Wrath domains from the Spell Compendium.Dwarven religion is based on the worship of ancestors.  An ancestral spirit guides the cleric, who seeks to emulate that ancestor and learn from their life.  Thus, depending on the nature of the ancestor, almost any domain is available (check with DM first).Orc religion contains thousands of gods, one for every tree and animal, as well as household gods, family gods, weather gods, ascended emperors, and many others.  Thus, clerics don't worship a single deity but entreat whatever god is most suited to the spell they want to cast at the time.  Orc clerics can thus choose almost any domain (check with DM first).Human religion is dominated by the Church of the Sun Trident, the weapon said to be wielded by the God of the Oceans, Cohlis, who rises from the ocean to throw the trident across the sky each day.  The church has an influence on the monarchy and often advises the King or Queen on matters of diplomacy.  It was the Church that advocated the creation of the Corps of Magi to protect the common folk from the magic of sorcerers and wizards.  Clerics of the Sun Trident have access to a similar list of domains to elves.Many of the other races have a common religion based on the notion of the "Great Maker," a deity like figure said to be responsible for creating life in the world.  Domains vary considerably (check with the DM).</blockquote>

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