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Message: <blockquote data-quote="InzeladunMaster" data-source="post: 2649263" data-attributes="member: 9774">Historically, priests did not preach or try to make converts.  That is pretty much a Christian-era invention.  Religion was more tied to race than belief.Again, this is also not historically accurate.  Most priests of pre-Christian times were priests because they inherited the position.Besides, why would someone take a job they dislike?  I am sure most clerics are happy to wear their clothes and do their rituals - it gives them a priveliged lifestyle, after all.  I doubt it is much of a sacrifice - at least no more of a sacrifice than any other vocation.Nor should he.  That would be too Christian and would not be the type of religion I would hope to see.  The ancient priest was in charge of making his civilisation work and not get smashed by the gods (enemy forces).  They did not preach and they did not really discuss theology.Service should be to the state and would probably never actually leave home except on diplomatic missions.Which would work fine if Cleric was a prestige class, not a core class.  Historically though, ancient priests were among the privileged and did not actually make personal sacrifices - they sacrificed other people.  In many ancient cultures, the priests were warriors who conducted rituals - which is how most people play them.  I do not see DnD clerics in Inzeladun as evangelising Christians.  They should be protectors of their nation's culture - and they do not need divine magic to do that, just a good weapon and a knowledge of ritual.  A sword, a few ranks in Perform (ritual) and a desire to protect his people's way of life, and he is a bone-fide priest!However, I did make a <a href="http://enworld.org/Inzeladun/inzeladun/lore/olanigantext.htm" target="_blank">holy book for my God of War </a> for Clerics to quote from, but as soon as I went to that much effort, no one wanted to play one.</blockquote>

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