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<blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 8935804" data-attributes="member: 64209"><p>I played a priest of the Goddess Leira (goddess of lies who was actually killed by Cyric, but since he didn't tell anyone see:lies, I still worshipped "her"), and it opened my eyes to how weird some of the more non-obvious religions can be. It was a great exercise to look at lying not as a simple act, but as a philosophy of life and a holy thing to uphold.</p><p></p><p>I think this could even be true for more "obvious gods" like gods of farming and healing, if you went deeper into the idea of what they stand for. You don't just heal really well... you look at healing as a way of approaching the entirety of existence, and it may spill over into other similar things. Maybe you regard carpenters and repairpersons with awe and respect for their abilities to make broken things whole again. Maybe causing wounds is a great sin or conversely, maybe causing wounds is a part of the cycle of life and you support the act "that which is broken cannot be fixed, that which is unwounded cannot be healed".</p><p></p><p>But, back to Leira, it was fun to not only be keeping secrets and lying, but encouraging others to do the same at every turn. It was a way to create intrigue and sometimes conflict, but also sometimes alignment "she really likes you" "he really likes you" to get two people together. Lots of ways to mess with the world when your outlook is that you (and others) SHOULD be lying, and if you're not, you're doing something wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aberzanzorax, post: 8935804, member: 64209"] I played a priest of the Goddess Leira (goddess of lies who was actually killed by Cyric, but since he didn't tell anyone see:lies, I still worshipped "her"), and it opened my eyes to how weird some of the more non-obvious religions can be. It was a great exercise to look at lying not as a simple act, but as a philosophy of life and a holy thing to uphold. I think this could even be true for more "obvious gods" like gods of farming and healing, if you went deeper into the idea of what they stand for. You don't just heal really well... you look at healing as a way of approaching the entirety of existence, and it may spill over into other similar things. Maybe you regard carpenters and repairpersons with awe and respect for their abilities to make broken things whole again. Maybe causing wounds is a great sin or conversely, maybe causing wounds is a part of the cycle of life and you support the act "that which is broken cannot be fixed, that which is unwounded cannot be healed". But, back to Leira, it was fun to not only be keeping secrets and lying, but encouraging others to do the same at every turn. It was a way to create intrigue and sometimes conflict, but also sometimes alignment "she really likes you" "he really likes you" to get two people together. Lots of ways to mess with the world when your outlook is that you (and others) SHOULD be lying, and if you're not, you're doing something wrong. [/QUOTE]
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