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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 3564475" data-attributes="member: 1125"><p>I've played a couple of settings which were theocracies (one a Druidic Theocracy) and another ruled by a god-king. In both these cases the reality of the diety was indisputable so there was no real room of religious dissention</p><p></p><p>However I once played a Half-Giant cleric who was heretic openly opposed to the Imperial State Religion and who actively preached against it.</p><p>Luckily the state religion had a set up where he could be both faithful and heretical - basically the Empire claimed that the First Empress (a Human) had ascended to godhood and become wife of the creator god. My PC claimed that the Imperial Religion had usurped the true faith and suppressed the right of the Giants as descendants of the Titans.</p><p></p><p>My PC did develop a following and participated in a schism against the state religion which was violently crushed by the Empire - forcing my PC into hiding (where he remains<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />)</p><p></p><p>In another setting based in an alt-Earth I had the Grand Inquisitor be elected Pope and then go about removing the state monarchs under allegations of heresy and consorting with demons (the demons were exposed and chained as proof). The Inqisition became a major threat to the World! Nonetheless the strength of the Ottomans allowed them to maintain a hold in Granada much to the chagrin of the Inquisition Terriroties. In the same setting the Puritans still dominated Britain (as Cromwell survived his sickness) and had spread into Northern France forcing the Pagans of Europe to move into the eastward. Nonetheless Scotland, Ireland and Lyonesse where dominated by Fae who oft raided the Puritan lands. Elsewhere less militant forms of Catholicsm and Protestantism competed for status although they were largely united against the Pagans and Ottoman threat</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 3564475, member: 1125"] I've played a couple of settings which were theocracies (one a Druidic Theocracy) and another ruled by a god-king. In both these cases the reality of the diety was indisputable so there was no real room of religious dissention However I once played a Half-Giant cleric who was heretic openly opposed to the Imperial State Religion and who actively preached against it. Luckily the state religion had a set up where he could be both faithful and heretical - basically the Empire claimed that the First Empress (a Human) had ascended to godhood and become wife of the creator god. My PC claimed that the Imperial Religion had usurped the true faith and suppressed the right of the Giants as descendants of the Titans. My PC did develop a following and participated in a schism against the state religion which was violently crushed by the Empire - forcing my PC into hiding (where he remains:)) In another setting based in an alt-Earth I had the Grand Inquisitor be elected Pope and then go about removing the state monarchs under allegations of heresy and consorting with demons (the demons were exposed and chained as proof). The Inqisition became a major threat to the World! Nonetheless the strength of the Ottomans allowed them to maintain a hold in Granada much to the chagrin of the Inquisition Terriroties. In the same setting the Puritans still dominated Britain (as Cromwell survived his sickness) and had spread into Northern France forcing the Pagans of Europe to move into the eastward. Nonetheless Scotland, Ireland and Lyonesse where dominated by Fae who oft raided the Puritan lands. Elsewhere less militant forms of Catholicsm and Protestantism competed for status although they were largely united against the Pagans and Ottoman threat [/QUOTE]
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