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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 9396310" data-attributes="member: 6802378">Hopebeam.A little touch of "Sword & Sandals" and "Ghostwalk meets Duskmourn""The tyrant demands obedience but the true leader deserves loyalty". This lesson has to be learnt by the divine powers in the hard way. In a far wildspace there was a cosmic war between the primal titans and the first generation of deities. The deities won, and after the different pantheon started to fight each other. They were too busy and distracted to realise the seed of the rebellion by the minions, the lord giants and lord feys. A nightmare ended... but other started later. The new divine powers didn't worry enoughly to discover the rifts toward the Far Realm and other planes..In this chaos the ordinary mortals suffering, hoping rest in the afterlife. Then a new faith, the Mekaddeism, arrived, and this offerin hopes for a better future. They built free orphanages, schools and hospitals for people in need. They healed with no-magic medicines instead the expensive divine spellcasters. Of course they weren't wellcome by the divine powers and a sad and painful age of martyrs arrived... and it was their worst mistake. Hundreds, or even thousands of believers of Mekaddeism faith suffering persecution and martyrdom, but this only caused the new faith to become stronger. The pagan clerics realised amazed and even horrified the zone where martyres suffered their cruel fate were sanctified, and no undead or unholy creature could set foot there. If Mekaddeist were attacked and eaten by undeads as "punishmet" by the pagans they didn't turn undead, and eater monster were destroyed as if they had drunk holy water or killed by sacred relics. A century after the Mekadeist faith was even stronger. Then they chose a different strategy, the believers would be exiled toward the Shadowfell. The idea worked for a long time in the sense the exiled weren't seen again.. until the day of the Fall.The pagan powers didn't worry enough to fix the troubles among the mortals, and these lost their faith. These believed but there isn't love or loyalty, why? The divine powers were too busy with their own troubles to worry about them. The plague of the walking dead and the giant freaks was only the first wave. After planar rifts appeared in everywhere, wildspaces or cities, and when the Fall ended the survivors realised the world they knewn not only had changed but also this was in a different space or sky. The light of hope came from the most unexpected place. The Mekaddeists who were exiled toward the Shadowfell not only had survived but rebuilt the civilitation. When the previous deities had failed, the Mekaddeist faith was wellcome this time, al least for several generations, but after new troubles appeared.New neopagan groups appeared, acussing of causing the Fall to eliminate competing religions. But it was worse when some kings self-proclaimed prophets of the "egregore", the collective mind of the ancestors, and thanks egregorism the "monopoly" of the "lightpaths", the ways between the sacredbeams (realms within the Shadowfeel enjoying the sacred light) and the sacred vineyard used for sacred medicines. But the worst damage was caused by the propaganda.This second age of religious persecutions and martyrdoms ended in the worst way. The Mekaddeist church had survived, but it was too small and weak, and they couldn't avoid the disaster, the second Fall. This happened differently. The known world was absorbed toward other plane, not the Shadowfell, the Feywild or the Far Realm. It wasn't not an infernal plane, but bizarre, for example amalgam of broken statues with multiple arms and legs, or wood cabins walking with crow's legs, like the product from the a mad deity's dream. The irony is the Mekaddeist clerics are the most powerful defenders against supernatural menaces, but too vulnerable against mortal enemies.</blockquote>

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