Showing my work (I have intentionally not listed several things as I am holding those cards for the time being). The Hill Cantons cosmology inspiration mix Jack Vance novels (absurdist satire of religious mores) Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword and Three Hearts, Bachman's Dragon article (the Weird and its cosmic juxtaposition to human civilization, the waxing/waning of gods being tied to the amount of human worship and the reduction of “Faerie”) Leiber's Lankhmar stories (more satire, petty gods and apotheosis) Early Renaissance Catholicism, Mediterranean hero-cults, Hellenistic and Roman sun-cults, Theosophy, Jewish neoplatinism and mystical traditions, Piper's Lord Kalvan, Early Christian theological disputes (Sun Lord) Hussites, Mormon feminism, William Blake's poetic mythology around the Triple Goddess (Celestial Lady) Slavic pagan mythology (Pahr Old Gods and a number of godlings) Hindu and Native American creation myths (World Turtle) M.A.R Barker's Creat...
I am doing write-ups for all the religions currently. The Celestial Lady, depending on who is talking, is either an unjustly spurned former co-deity on par with the Sun Lord in a dual-membered pantheon or an old goddess that was a "bad match and beneath the station" of the Sun Lord. If you believe the former than you consider her the representation of the female ruler of ALL DOMAINS human. Others believe her to be a relatively minor goddess of the Pahr that dealt with herd animals.
ReplyDeleteHer followers are considered heretics but the more mainstream Morning and Evening Star societies are fairly well tolerated in the borderlands. The aspirational alignment is CG, but most people who follow her are Neutral. Some say that the mystics of the Starry Void society are demonic.
Most of the Pahr Old Gods followers aspire to be Chaotic Good in keeping with the Holmesian pagan gods schema. Radagast being the one with the strongest contemporary following.
Also I am doing a write up for special powers of non-Cleric priests (and for special spells for Sun Lord clerics by sect).
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