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Message: <blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 3105654" data-attributes="member: 29746">Regarding the return of the Arcanists, I'd say the most likely response from society at large will be terror and anger. Arcanists were hunted down presumably under the auspices of this "Paladin," (I put that in quotes because the Paladin clearly had to kill Good-aligned Arcanists to do the dirty work of exterminating them in addition to the Evil ones- and killing Good creatures can hardly be considered a good act, so he clearly wasn't much of a Paladin in that sense!) which means that people in general will think they must all be dark and evil.A campaign against Arcanists couldn't work without public approval, or even support, due to the various powers Arcanists have at their disposal, so that means the people must have been on the side of the Church-based extermination squads. That in turn means that there must be some religious bias in some holy book or another against Arcane magic, and as a result the minimum response to expect would be for anti-Arcanist cults to rise up against them when they start to show again- sort of like the Children of LIght in the Wheel of Time books. Even if the actual heads of the Sun Church are the ones calling for the return of Arcanists, and they cast the Resurrection spells needed to bring it about, there will be cults of people who want to see them stay dead and do everything they can to return them to that state.As for how to bring back the other deities, what if the Sun God basically took over the mantles and divine power of the others once they were gone, for whatever reason? Perhaps the world would have been destroyed immediately if the Sun God hadn't done that, or perhaps the divine power just naturally migrated to its only remaining expression, or perhaps there are still other reasons. The twist this idea puts in the campaign is, in order to bring back the dead deities, this power has to be liberated somehow. I'd have it be necessary to kill the Sun God and destroy/annihilate his current Church before enough divine power was liberated, but that's me. I have a deep-rooted hatred of monolithic churches like those found in the real world, so it'd be a sort of pleasant revenge fantasy for me to see things work out this way. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> However you liberate the divine power though, it certainly means a loss of power to the Sun God and his Church, so the Church will be fighting it all the way (whether or not the Sun God himself does).</blockquote>

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