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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9406464" data-attributes="member: 4937">As opposed to what?In a typical D&D setting, the model for a holy war is less likely to be a crusade or a jihad as it is to be the Greeks versus Troy - no less brutal and horrific for the fact there is no one god in question but a dysfunctional brutal family playing out their family drama with mortals as tools for their own grievances and also the cause of their own further grievances against each other.  Whether or not the gods are handing out orders is less relevant than that they are taking sides and messing in the affairs both directly (taking chariots and fighting alongside the mortals, and occasionally even getting wounded) and indirectly through divine favor influencing the outcome of battles both personal and corporate.  I very much agree with your post except that I don't think there is a contradiction between gods walking the earth in living memory and historical religion and politics because all of those historical societies themselves believed in gods walking the earth in living memory.  And I really dislike faith as this nebulous power rather than its historical meaning of fidelity and trust.  But for that matter, I really dislike in setting "faith" meaning much of anything because as soon as you bring up "faith" in the context of religion then you are doing a Christian pastiche rather than any sort of historical polytheism.  Faith is unimportant to most religions, and shouldn't be used as a synonym for religion any more than church should be used as a synonym for religion.</blockquote>

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