For example, in Quarrian society, it is totally lawful for a Father to kill his own child, if that child has sullied the Clan's name with adultery. All agree on this moral code, even if certain exceptions are tolerated in some places, but not others. For example, unless you are in the lowest cavern of Sheol, murder, rape and theft will still be wrong. However, despite the small difference in local religious law, all sensible, moral people generally believe that some things are wrong. For example, Yakul the Many-Mouthed may offer especially harsh punishments for thieves and forbid the wearing of the color blue on certain days of the week, while Yono-Gazai, Mother of Legions might order adulterers crucified and demand everyone in her cities party on the Night of the New Moon, under penalty of being forced to cross-dress and be dragged into a farce-marriage with an oxen. Everyone is essentially working off the same, poorly understood moral framework, with small variations. Gods may offer moral instruction, but generally it is understood that the Gods are not the authors of morality. You'll probably have to settle for talking to one of the God's priests though, as odds are, you are unworthy to enter the Holy presence of a God. In the third case, you can just go to their Temple. So if you set out to find a God, even if that God doesn't have one particular location or ethnic group they hang around, you'll probably run into them eventually.
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Gods can sense when people are thinking or talking about them (as in prayer) but also in casual conversation. In the second case, your best bet is to pray to the God or find a Prophet who bears one of their Voices to try and get in contact with them. Alternatively, you may also be invited there, at least for a short time. In the first case, Heaven is a real place that you can see from a high building on a clear day, and you can go there, though you're likely to be quickly found and evicted. Gods live in Heaven, wander the Earth, or live in their temples As such, I will not be coming up with the entire list of known divine entities, and will instead only detail a few of the key Gods from each pantheon that do exist. As such, I am not going to define all the myriad pantheons in Nukaria, partly because I want the world to be glutted with petty Gods and the like, but also because it is a waste of time. Even the weakest God is immortal.Įvery time I've had a player who wants to be a Cleric, they have always refused my God lists, and asked to worship any number of other things, from the God of Thieves to Dionysus from Greek mythology.
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The strongest Outsider can rival the weakest God, and not all Gods are powerful, but that doesn't make them anywhere in the same league. Gods and Outsiders do share some similarities, but don't think they're the same. Gods are to Outsiders as Humans are to Apes In my settings, atheists are more like Plato than Christopher Hitchens.ĥ. If you don't worship the Gods, it's probably not because you doubt their existence, but because you don't feel they are worthy of worship. Irreligion and Atheism are about allegiance, not lack of belief Strike them down and they'll just come back after a while (see below).Ĥ.
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If you end up fighting a God, it doesn't matter if you shoot, stab, or bludgeon them. Similarly, just as "Angel" and "Demon" are titles, "God" is a title as well, given to transcendent beings interested in what goes on our little mudball.
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Heaven, the Hells, Sheol and other places might not actually exist as actual physical places, but be clever metaphors to describe what it's like after death. Religion is an attempt to understand the Gods, who they are, and what they might want. Worship and union with mortals makes Gods actually enjoy their immortal lives, in the same way friends, religion and worship make humans enjoy theirs.Ģ. Gods don't need worship in the same way that Humans don't need friendship, art or philosophy. Let's lay some ground-rules, then we'll build some Gods of our own. As with all my recent posts, I'm not going to beat around the bush.