Because we got into the Perun/Velesh conflict last night and it may be relevant to your goals/understanding of...
Because we got into the Perun/Velesh conflict last night and it may be relevant to your goals/understanding of what's happening in the campaign world, Vilem explains a few things about Old Pahr religion (based on some old notes from my campaign notebook): 1. That the Pahr religion is a “softshell” polytheism, a loose doctrine that accepts that there are other gods and divine forces. Some Old Pahr doctrine teaches that these gods are just archetypes but the dominant belief is a simple shrug of the shoulders and loose if vaguely contemptuous acceptance of “those crazy foreigners and their over-complicated, demanding gods.” The Sun Lord and Solarity in general even gets this treatment. 2. That a key reason for this is an old belief that the Pahr gods and people are not “of Zem”--that they wandered into this world during the so-called Second Exile at a point in the northeast of the steppes. Old Pahr maintain that they are in the Third Exile, while the Pahr of the Cantons mostly maint...