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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hejdun" data-source="post: 3897718" data-attributes="member: 839">So imagine, say, a religion or a cult that believes that when a being dies, it is reborn as a new creature based on what it did during your life.  If you were brutal and cruel, maybe you're reborn as an orc, or if you were noble and wise you are reborn as an elf.  If you accomplished great deeds in your life, maybe you are reborn as a God, and thus you have your classic "hero ascends to Godhood" scenario.  What makes this more interesting is the interaction between sentient species.  Perhaps this religion believes that particularly meek or shy people are reborn as gnomes or halflings (thus why they're short and easy to overlook).  There you have a reason why humans would be condescending towards the shorter races.It also gives you a reason why good characters would want to slay evil creatures.  It's out of pity.  Their negative karma resulted in being reborn as a vicious race, and by killing them, you are releasing them from their negative karma by letting them be reborn as something else.  Thus, killing even orc children is a A Good Thing To Do (TM) because it is letting them be reborn again, possibly as something better.Now, this doesn't necessarily have to happen.  You just have to have people believe that it does.  It'd be an interesting cause to champion as, say, a Crusader.Anyone have any critiques or suggestions on how to develop this further?  Could this be a basis for religion in a homebrew?</blockquote>

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