Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snoweel" data-source="post: 5107104" data-attributes="member: 4453">I certainly do think of them as one pantheon where they all have some fondness for each other, even the evil ones - like some kind of family tie or something.But I see archfey and demon lords and just about everybody else as directly competing with the gods. Most of them at least.As for individual temples though, I think the politics between them (between temples of different gods, or even between temples of the same god) are entirely dependent on the personalities of the individuals associated with them - like any organisation consisting of powerful people (priests and other representatives of the gods, whether politically or magically powerful).I certainly see the case where the paladin of Erathis riding into town with his buddies is viewed with suspicion by the head of the local Erathis temple. Especially if he makes it known he's on good terms with the temple of Erathis in the town across the bay (who happen to have stolen an important religious text).Hell, the (mid-heroic tier) head priest might order the (low-paragon tier) paladin kicked out for daring to suggest that Erathis wouldn't like the way he runs the temple.Agreed.But in a points-of-light setting it's entirely possible that in any one of the points-of-light (whether that be a single settlement or an isolated valley containing two towns and twenty villages with no outside contact) that some knowledge of one or more of the gods has been lost.In my example of the isolated town run by the cult of Baphomet, the cultists might have taken over several generations ago. Forcible conversion back then has led to the entire population of the town being born knowing no god but Baphomet.</blockquote>

Verification