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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 6268294" data-attributes="member: 6701124">I really like your explanation of how something like this could arise -- changed me from hating the set-up to seeing the potential and how it reasonably could have developed that way in a not-crazy society.That seems a little strange if they think the deity _knew_ what really happened.   I'm picturing a known evil sorcerer having captured a dozen or so officers of the law.  He says some magical mumbo-jumbo (casts a spell apparently), seems to take over the mind of one of them, and the taken over one kills one of the other officers of the law.  Evil guy then escapes.  Has he set it up so that the other officers of the law must now execute the one who did the killing even though they witnessed the whole thing?  In that case there could be some doubt (maybe their fellow officer was just faking)?  But presumably the deity wouldn't have the doubts.  (If one of the other officers had detect magic running the whole time and could verify a charm spell was cast, would that change things?)On the other hand, I can imagine lots of people being pissed at the gods for not having created a world where such evil mind control existed and not having provided a corresponding way to detect the innocent (a wandering order of marshals with the ability to detect whether someone had been charmed in the past 24 hours?).   Of course the world is set up where lots of other bad things happen to good people that no divine minions come to save them from.   Do your peasants have some belief that those executed in such cases get justice in the after-life?</blockquote>

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