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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jerichothebard" data-source="post: 3105959" data-attributes="member: 4705">Wow, thanks for the quick replies!  One thing that I should have mentioned - the party is 1/2 priests (a monk, a paladin and a cleric) of the Sun God, but events have transpired to convince them that the Church at large was wrong in its wars against the other churches and the mages.Also, the mages aren't dead (well, a portion of the original Mages are not, anyway), they  locked themselves out of time for a while, in order to avoid a direct conflict with the Church.  They threw a war (in the way you throw a fight, not a party) and went into hiding.  The MacGuffin to save the world (for the culmination of the first plot arc) is locked in with them, so it is ineveitable that they will be released.I like the idea of a conflict or schism in the church, between those that do and don't believe in the validity of the arcanists.  It's been a long time since that war - 500+ years - so for most people, they are really just a fairy tale.I have definitely thought about creating new gods - one of the NPC's is a possessed pregnant woman (long story involving the party's naive ranger, a summer jaunt to the farmlands, a foot getting wedged REALLY far in his mouth, and a ghost), and her child I am gearing up for assuming the mantle of the Death god... Interesting question - do you think the divine spark of the God he is assuming would override his growing personality, or do you think that the god's outlook could be shaped by the mother?  Because right now, she's really pretty angry and bitter.  Not only did she get knocked up in a summer fling (her first), he took off, then insulted her, she got kidnapped (by the bad guys), possessed, kidnapped again, sent into hiding in a Library, and finally moved from the library to a little tiny town in the forest where she is all alone and being guarded by a pack of werewolves.  And then the party took off for Gods know where, on a mission to save the world.So, yeah, a little bitter.So far, both the god of trickery and the goddess of magic/time have appeared in visions to various party members, though it was made clear that they currently have very little power.  I figure it would be pretty hard to kill the God of Narrow Escapes and the Goddess of Foresight and Divination...!Oh, and there are hints that Nature is still alive, in some fashion, though fading fast.  I would really like some help with the mechanics of it - how to actually set up the various rituals or situations, and figure out some concrete goals to pursue.  How, for example, to supply a congregation for the newly-reborn gods?  Magic is easy, since they will be releasing the mages.  But the rest?</blockquote>

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