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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8236851" data-attributes="member: 5948">'Expy' is basically a term for 'fantasy substitute for..'.  The church of Ezra serves the same role in Ravenloft as Christian churches do in Gothic stories - big cathedrals and little local churches, generally humble and protective clergy but can go over the line into dogmatic and monodominiant, no rites or beliefs that would be wildly out of place in real-world Christianity, plus the dogma and theology etc is up for debate and interpretation and is the subject of conflict between sects (though how that debate lasts past the first casting of 'Commune' I've never been quite sure). I don't mind the use of the celtic pantheon in Ravenloft, but they've always been kinda background and never really fleshed out, plus [USER=2209]@Voadam[/USER] is right that it seemed silly they're worshipped all over the place.  Tepest and Forlorn, two domains separated by the width of half the Core, but nothing in between?   I would have liked to see more use of the Divinity of Mankind though.  I think it was mostly a Paridon belief system, but it'd fit well in Lamordia if you wanted to have a church there, and you could have an evil human-supremacist sect centred in Falkovnia too.  Its emphasis on inner power and self-perfection did fit well into a setting where gods are so distant though.</blockquote>