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Message: <blockquote data-quote="greyscale1" data-source="post: 4477844" data-attributes="member: 65303">Depends how you want the church to be in your world. I'm sure you want the church to be 'good', the question becomes, how should they go about the good in your world?I find there are several ways of doing religion with blanket statements that players rarely take the time to disseminate. Fiercely Dogmatic: Like the Catholic Church. With complex rituals, deep seated power structure, more commands to follow, etc.Hippy Hip Freeling: Here are my commands! Do good amongst yourselves, amongst your neighbors, and amongst your enemies. Go home to your fields and look to Pelors radiance. Let it's warmth be a constant reminder that all can be right in the world, if we do good.Zenny: Bhudism, subdued, at least OUTWARDLY pacifistic, perhaps hiding a deeper more dogmatic and worshipful core.DONE WITH THAT.As for my recommendation,  you should go with a more catholic, dogmatic style. This event could be a meeting of cardinals (their equivalents) to transfer some sort of power to the new pope (Leader guy, Primary guy in charge of subduing shadow god, etc. Can  be scary for your characters because he might have special resistance to shadow, damage against shadow, and an unstoppable fervor. You can pose as cardinal whatevers to get in and disrupt the ceremony that would make him the new antishadowguy (maybe the previous one you killed and didn't know it? Old age? Whatever, he is dead or too old to fight)Suffice it to say if you disrupt the ritual, he might get a good deal of the power, but not all. Maybe this guy, when he is all full of holy power, only then will he be able to cast the spell to seal the seal or whatever they are trying to do.This would allow you to have a series of fights with him where he had a significant boost in abilities between each (level him up with your characters AND boost verisimilitude)As for garb and decorations, large staves with sun shaped lanterns at the tops, a censure with a sun theme, lots of yellow and shining gold. Where a cross might go instead a golden (leafed at least) visage of Pelor.~My two cp~</blockquote>

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