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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 3202624" data-attributes="member: 7280">Personally I think Wee Jas has her "portfolio" and all that but it helps if you remember she's also Suel goddess in GH and she has an implicit portfolio of "advancing the people of the ancient Suel empire." Yes, she's pragmatic. She's pragmatic to allow people to worship her along a LE axis and be ok with that. She doesn't do anything about the perversion of her faith into something it seems like it might not exactly have started out as, as long as it continues her faith into the future.I can see some weird conflicts arising out of this, but I don't think the "monolithic" elements of the clergy would be the "spooky evil necromancers" no matter how many of that variety of faithful clustered around eating brains and resorting to dark arts. No, I think the brick and mortar churches would be more aligned along the LN axis even if they were outnumbered and the rare LG worshiper would be looked upon as a somewhat naive tool to be used to "bring the others in line." In other words, that to some extent Wee Jas herself would encourage more LG examples of her faithful simply as a way of showing the common people that she's about more than corpses and dusty tombs. Also, Wee Jas is a love goddess as well. That's an interesting angle on the Paladin of the Ruby Sorceress debate too, because her portfolio of love specifically pushes the envelope of her own lawfulness. Maybe the paladin is seeking to return a lost love from the dead, which would require specific entreaties and performances in the Lady's service and command. Anyways, that's just how I see it. There are people who pragmatically worship Wee Jas simply for the power that she represents, those who simply uphold her laws, and maybe the LG folks really are on to something in that they're what the Wee Jas faithful began as and were intended to be, and they simply didn't have a goddess whose inclinations were such that she wasn't willing to let her faithful make their own (personally disappointing) decisions.</blockquote>

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