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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8594574" data-attributes="member: 6877472">In light of my recent woes regarding religion, I'm going to try and not use specific terms.  In a widely published book of mythology that I will call B, a divine entity that I will call G, made a pact with a man called A.  This pact grants the descendants of A spiritual protection, and makes G their patron deity.While the exact powers of the pact are not known, they include the ability to see into the future.  In a later chapter of B, a person who is not a descendant of A is able to fulfill certain requirements of the pact with G, sufficient to allow them to gain the powers of foresight and use them to their own benefit.This annoys the Patron, G, who decides to grant visions to this individual (B2, we'll call him) to cause him a great deal of trouble, and eventually lead to the destruction to the enemies of the descendants of A.In this, you see that the concepts of pact magic, bloodline magic, and divine magic are fairly intertwined, which is common in old myths.  The first hero, who we will call Other G (OG), was said to be 2/3 divine, which granted him special powers.Making pacts with spirits and gods to gain power is inherent in ancient belief systems.  I propose that the actual difference between Clerics, Druids, Warlocks, and Sorcerers may not be as great as previously imagined (and hey, don't we have a Sorcerer who can draw on divine magic?).</blockquote>

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