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Message: <blockquote data-quote="xenoflare" data-source="post: 2877790" data-attributes="member: 12431">Some thoughts about Astur-Monotheism - you can actually tie that in with Reincarnation. Just a thought - if all beings are of the same divinity - of the One God, so as to speak - then everyone is a subset of that divinity. People die, live, are reborn, with their lives serving as "refining processes" of their souls that on the cosmic level reflect Astur refining his essence.Maybe you can tie that in with divine heritage - some deva blood, aasimar or half-celestial maybe? People looking at the divine-blooded among themselves as products of ethical living and spiritual advancement...Obviously, the best way to save the world in this view would be to go out and spread the religion, by procreating with people. As the divine blood spreads, more potential aasimars are born... and thus Astur is served? You can have a tolerant monotheism - it's like how Christian missionaries go to Cambodian and Thai hill tribes and claim that the animistic gods the tribesmen worship are actually part of God?So the religion is monotheistic and expansive, but culturally tolerant to a degree - it's also innovative and capable of change as it expands, but it also has internal strife as you have purists who deride the new changes as being heresy? It's kinda like Islam, with its splits between the Shi'ites, Sunnis, Sufis etc.Over time - as more devas are brought under this cultural umbrella, Astur will truly manifest, of sorts?Maybe you can use that for the Deng Hua instead, hehe, that may work better?</blockquote>

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