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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 400678" data-attributes="member: 4720">That's the one.  Though the version I read referred to the Fallen Angels as "nephilim" ("giants" I think).  Which I just noticed yours makes mention of as well. I misinterpreted you, then.  Personally, monotheism in games bores me.  I much prefer polytheistic or quasi-Buddhist-flavored games (i.e. there are gods, but they, like mortals are ultimately just part of something greater.  And everything has a divine spark within them).  It could also be done with a world more like this one, where God doesn't really talk to people or send them magicks, and your explanation above would be the one the truly faithful priests concocted for themselves to explain their sudden powers.  They would truly believe that their power was coming from God, when it actually came from their own faith in something greater.  Because of the nature of this belief, despite the fact that both their powers come from within, Clerical power would be different in kind from that of Psions, who are cognizant that the power is coming from within them.Speaking of Psions...That's good stuff.  Someone would be bound to notice the difference in the nature of their powers, eventually, and would wonder which power was actually from God, and where the other power was coming from.  That's the kind of thing that leads to either a) an Inquisition within the Church itself, or b) a new Gnosticism.That sounds like an interesting game, right there.I seem to have promised some Psion flavor text earlier.  How's this sound?Just as the Flowering touched the hearts of the children of the Nephilim, so did it touch the hearts of all men. Far away from the influence of the Church, in the Empires of the East, lived men who, through ascetic practices and meditation, were in Harmony with the Divine. These men felt the stirring of their hearts as other men did not, and sought deeper, to where the Light of the Flowering rebounded from the Light in their own souls.  The most disciplined among them were able to reach into that Light, and draw it out of themselves into the world.  And with it, they could perform wonders.   And to the West, even as the Faithful tore down the idols of a Church corrupted, there were those who contemplated the Divine.  Some who were Brothers to the Faithful were not men made to rail against the corruption of the Church, nor to guide a flock of God's people.  These men lived a simple life, and bent their minds to the touch of the Divine on their souls.  Subtler perhaps did the Flowering touch these men than their Brothers among the Faithful.  Subtler, but no less profound.  For as time passed, the resonance of their souls to the Flowering was made manifest.  And much as their spiritual counterparts in the East, they drew the Divine out of themselves to perform miracles.Diviners and Mystics.  Healers and Warriors.  Saints and Devils.  These are the men who have opened their Mind's Eye to the World.A little too cheesy?</blockquote>

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