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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zeromaru X" data-source="post: 9305080" data-attributes="member: 65487">This is another reason the Dawn War pantheon is so perfect for me. The Dawn War mythos have this element that allows you to have mythologically accurate gods (what you call "super people") without making them Big Name NPCs: the Primal Ban enacted by the Primal Spirits after the Dawn War.So, the gods are actually real gods, they act like real gods (super people with their own virtues and follies, like Greek gods), but they cannot exert much influence into the World because of the magical barrier that makes almost impossible for the gods to enter into the real world. So, the cults and sects are mostly on their own, as their high priests can commune with their gods, but this is so difficult that they don't do it every day. The Primal Ban can be surpassed and the gods can be allowed to send an avatar into the mortal world, but this requires an active participation of the mortals/players (they need to actively summon their god with rituals and that stuff).The consequences of this is that mortals are usually on their own, which makes every cult and sect unique, with their own inner politics and stuff. Yeah, the followers of Bahamut in Fallcrest maybe good guys who follow Bahamut's precepts as best as they can, but we also have those crazy Bahamutians of Harkenwold that have interpreted Bahamut's creed as if it were the Spanish Inquisition. And Bahamut can do nothing about it unless it is properly summoned by someone interested in changing things.So, you can have actual gods that can be used as objects of faith (because there is a lore reason for that) or as super people, allowing you to either makine religion a passive (or even irrelevant) element of your world, an element drived by the individual politics of each cult rather than by their gods, or have a game were gods actually walk the land depending on the necessities of your game. Best of both worlds.</blockquote>

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