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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8728054" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>Missing questions:</p><p></p><p><strong>1. How many divine origins are there?</strong></p><p></p><p>That is, you can have a true monotheistic setting (there is <em>one</em> ultimate creator, even if that creator makes helpers like Eru Ilúvatar does in <em>The Silmarillion</em>), or a hyper-polytheist setting where there are numerous distinct pantheons and each of them has their own creation myth and origin and creations, or anything in-between.</p><p></p><p><strong>2. Can divinity be proven?</strong></p><p></p><p>Sometimes, divinity is just an obvious thing, or can be tested or verified through the use of historical records or (more commonly) magical investigation. Other times, divinity is ambiguous--the difference between "merely an extremely old and powerful supernatural being" and "a true deity deserving of worship and obedience" may be quite wide. This has huge impacts on the nature of faith and belief in any setting.</p><p></p><p>My own home game hasn't strictly answered the first of these questions yet (we have only seen two real religions, and a third that is sort of a synthesis of those two, so there could easily be other conceptions/divinities that haven't been brought up yet.) One of those religions asserts absolute monotheism, that there is only ONE true deity, The One, and Their will is what created all of existence etc. However, it is a known fact that these claims cannot <em>even in principle</em> be conclusively proven. The One COULD just be an extremely powerful spirit (which is what one of the two aforementioned religions claims), or They could be the true creator of the whole universe. It is not possible to find proof of these assertions, nor is it possible to objectively disprove them. Magic cannot look back that far, and no being that is old enough to have firsthand info is 100% unequivocally trustworthy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8728054, member: 6790260"] Missing questions: [B]1. How many divine origins are there?[/B] That is, you can have a true monotheistic setting (there is [I]one[/I] ultimate creator, even if that creator makes helpers like Eru Ilúvatar does in [I]The Silmarillion[/I]), or a hyper-polytheist setting where there are numerous distinct pantheons and each of them has their own creation myth and origin and creations, or anything in-between. [B]2. Can divinity be proven?[/B] Sometimes, divinity is just an obvious thing, or can be tested or verified through the use of historical records or (more commonly) magical investigation. Other times, divinity is ambiguous--the difference between "merely an extremely old and powerful supernatural being" and "a true deity deserving of worship and obedience" may be quite wide. This has huge impacts on the nature of faith and belief in any setting. My own home game hasn't strictly answered the first of these questions yet (we have only seen two real religions, and a third that is sort of a synthesis of those two, so there could easily be other conceptions/divinities that haven't been brought up yet.) One of those religions asserts absolute monotheism, that there is only ONE true deity, The One, and Their will is what created all of existence etc. However, it is a known fact that these claims cannot [I]even in principle[/I] be conclusively proven. The One COULD just be an extremely powerful spirit (which is what one of the two aforementioned religions claims), or They could be the true creator of the whole universe. It is not possible to find proof of these assertions, nor is it possible to objectively disprove them. Magic cannot look back that far, and no being that is old enough to have firsthand info is 100% unequivocally trustworthy. [/QUOTE]
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