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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8402497" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>This is all wonderful, but I think to get more to the intent of the thread and the OP... how do these religious systems interact? Because, if these systems are like Eberron, where each system is completely separated and unknowable what is really going on, then this works. If each system is known to be "real" and balanced... then people might have concerns. But I think the trouble comes in if each system is real, but also the single god is the most powerful and truly more powerful and influential than the other powers of the other belief systems, because now you have made a judgement. </p><p></p><p>And I don't think you have done that, to be clear, but trying to take your example and parse it into the ongoing discussion, it really is about the interactions of these structures, and "gods" having a higher priority and higher power than other sets of beings. In fact, people would likely argue that the Ancestor Worship sect cannot have clerics or paladins, or even warlocks, because that category of being is not strong enough to create those classes, something I think you would disagree with, but which is the main sticking point between Demon Princes and Archdevils being considered Evil Gods.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8402497, member: 6801228"] This is all wonderful, but I think to get more to the intent of the thread and the OP... how do these religious systems interact? Because, if these systems are like Eberron, where each system is completely separated and unknowable what is really going on, then this works. If each system is known to be "real" and balanced... then people might have concerns. But I think the trouble comes in if each system is real, but also the single god is the most powerful and truly more powerful and influential than the other powers of the other belief systems, because now you have made a judgement. And I don't think you have done that, to be clear, but trying to take your example and parse it into the ongoing discussion, it really is about the interactions of these structures, and "gods" having a higher priority and higher power than other sets of beings. In fact, people would likely argue that the Ancestor Worship sect cannot have clerics or paladins, or even warlocks, because that category of being is not strong enough to create those classes, something I think you would disagree with, but which is the main sticking point between Demon Princes and Archdevils being considered Evil Gods. [/QUOTE]
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