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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8345635" data-attributes="member: 6796468">While that's certainly an option, [USER=7025997]@Blue Orange[/USER], it's not the direction I want to take the setting in.There will, of course, be evil priests and cults of the gods. And there will probably be cults devoted to other gods that may or may not exist. But the gods as presented aren't specifically malevolent toward mortals. The curses exist, but in the canon it's presumed they're based on some terrible offense that mortals committed in the distant past. One that they can't seek atonement for because they literally don't know who did what wrong.Like going to confessional and saying &quot;Forgive me father, for I have sinned, but I don't know -how- I sinned or how much but terrible things are happening so it must have been a LOT.&quot; and the priest going &quot;Well just keep saying Hail Marys and Our Fathers 'til you die and let's hope that covers it.&quot; (Not that that would ever happen in reality, just using a colorful example)But also: are there even actually gods? There's gonna be myths and legends and stories about them... but all the gods (Except the Flower) are just the natural way of the world. Storms gonna storm, earth's gonna quake, animals gonna kill and eat people if they get the chance, and people die in weird ways or just in general. Maybe Priests get their Divine Magic through devotion to an ideal rather than a god and they just create the trappings of godhood and worship as a conduit for their devotion, or don't know that the gods are fake, or maybe they're real, or maybe Priests build up elaborate rituals and faiths around gods to control the masses. Who can -truly- say except the dead?And the dead keep their secrets well.[MEDIA=youtube]W5K3AKl5qpc[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8345635, member: 6796468"] While that's certainly an option, [USER=7025997]@Blue Orange[/USER], it's not the direction I want to take the setting in. There will, of course, be evil priests and cults of the gods. And there will probably be cults devoted to other gods that may or may not exist. But the gods as presented aren't specifically malevolent toward mortals. The curses exist, but in the canon it's presumed they're based on some terrible offense that mortals committed in the distant past. One that they can't seek atonement for because they literally don't know who did what wrong. Like going to confessional and saying "Forgive me father, for I have sinned, but I don't know -how- I sinned or how much but terrible things are happening so it must have been a LOT." and the priest going "Well just keep saying Hail Marys and Our Fathers 'til you die and let's hope that covers it." (Not that that would ever happen in reality, just using a colorful example) But also: are there even actually gods? There's gonna be myths and legends and stories about them... but all the gods (Except the Flower) are just the natural way of the world. Storms gonna storm, earth's gonna quake, animals gonna kill and eat people if they get the chance, and people die in weird ways or just in general. Maybe Priests get their Divine Magic through devotion to an ideal rather than a god and they just create the trappings of godhood and worship as a conduit for their devotion, or don't know that the gods are fake, or maybe they're real, or maybe Priests build up elaborate rituals and faiths around gods to control the masses. Who can -truly- say except the dead? And the dead keep their secrets well. [MEDIA=youtube]W5K3AKl5qpc[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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