After building my very first 38a world, I made goblins a playable race and decided to meet my maker, so to speak: Bosa the Ungodly Hate of Terrors, demonic deity to the Oracular Malignant Monsters of Ransacking. With a name that awesome, how could I resist paying a visit and homage to a demon-god?
After traveling a long, long distance to reach the capital through treacherous mountain paths, I made my way to the top of the Fortress of Nightmares in Rayhexes. I had stopped by the Church of Bones just minutes beforehand, swearing my eternal allegiance to this dark lord of the goblins.
I greeted this terrible, fell creature as gracefully as I could, chatted with him a bit, accepted a quest to slay a mayor of a human town... and then attacked him. Why? Well, just because I wanted to test my mettle against a demon-lord!
The crazy thing? I won. I got a lucky headshot with an axe, rendering him unconscious in the second round of combat (after receiving heavy wounds from a fireball), and, after another two dozen failed attempts to hit him, finally beheaded the monster.
The crazier thing? Civilization around me collapsed. I had some drunks with me, and naturally they all came roaring to protect their deity the moment I struck... but the other peasants on the roof of the fortress suddenly came and attacked the drunks and Bosa! I was absolutely floored. A religious schism? Did the goblins finally see their opening to be free of the oppression of the monstrous beast and come to aid me as I slew their god? More and more people ran up to the roof, joining the terrible fray. Two dozen bodies lay around me, blood everywhere, goblins attacking goblins without any apparent rhyme or reason!
Did they all go insane, or did I bring about a bloody revolution? The answer is far, far weirder:
Take a close look at the second-to-last item. Yeah. That's right.
Bosa became an enemy of his very own death-cult for attacking me.
The peasants leapt to my defense, being religious, while the drunks and guards came after me for attacking the civilization leader. Religion apparently trumps government, and religious figures can apparently become enemies of their own cults for attacking their members, resulting in a completely-for-backwards-reasons political and religious bloodbath!
TL;DR: I attacked a demon-god, his own cult got mad at him and attacked him.
Addendum: The whole fight is here in a series of PNG images for anyone that's curious as to how the fighting went; the full save file post-demon-murder is here; and the save from just before the fight is here.
Addendum 2:
Further proof: Attacking the demon-god made me an enemy of the State, not the cult. When Bosa attacked me in self-defense, that made him an enemy of the Cult. The State - guards and drunks - attacked me, the Cult - peasants - attacked Bosa. I guess the real bug here is that manifest deities are apparently not necessarily part of the religion that worships them, and thus attacks on them do not alienate the cult itself.
Addendum 3: "Backwards Religious Schism" isn't as helpful/accurate of a topic title, so I'm changing it.
[ February 06, 2008: Message edited by: Lord Licorice ]
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