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Puzzlemaker

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Re: Religion
« Reply #15 on: July 11, 2008, 05:24:08 pm »
Ah crap, you are right.  Sorry.
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Re: Religion
« Reply #16 on: September 18, 2008, 04:45:13 pm »
Are religions planned to have more than just gods to worship? Like having tenets and all that jazz.
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Re: Religion
« Reply #17 on: October 14, 2008, 09:57:46 am »
Everything is planned.
I don't even know why the Suggestion forum is here...
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Re: Religion
« Reply #18 on: October 14, 2008, 01:17:02 pm »
Quote from: Fishersalwaysdie on October 14, 2008, 09:57:46 am
Everything is planned.
I don't even know why the Suggestion forum is here...
Word :)
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Re: Religion
« Reply #19 on: September 14, 2009, 01:14:18 pm »
Quote from: Fishersalwaysdie on October 14, 2008, 09:57:46 am
Everything is planned.
I don't even know why the Suggestion forum is here...
To deepen the possibilities ideas that could be added to improve the stuff that's already in work :)

I personally quite like the idea of heroes and kings having the possibility to become worshipped as gods. There are examples where people got worshipped on that basis (the egyptian pharaoh, or the japanese king for example.
Another interesting thing would be if the priests had powers such as maybe being able to bring back people who have gone insane at personal risk of course  ;D
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jimi12

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« Reply #20 on: September 18, 2009, 01:13:56 pm »
I thought that gods are planned to be actually deities and not just empty belief systems. gods will actually perform miracles and do other godly things. how will that tie in with all of these gods branching off and new gods being made and old gods dying or being forgotten if these are supposed to be real in the game?
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Granite26

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« Reply #21 on: September 18, 2009, 02:12:41 pm »
Quote from: jimi12 on September 18, 2009, 01:13:56 pm
I thought that gods are planned to be actually deities and not just empty belief systems. gods will actually perform miracles and do other godly things. how will that tie in with all of these gods branching off and new gods being made and old gods dying or being forgotten if these are supposed to be real in the game?

Try this for some ideason how living gods vs real-world evolution of them
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« Reply #22 on: September 19, 2009, 02:41:28 am »
It would be interesting to see how different cultures view the real gods. Each culture could have a different outlook on them.

For instance:

Urist McGod is a real god. He has dominion over food and alcohol. He has a son who has dominion over potashes.

Human civilization #1 might call him Oorist McDiety and think he wears a kilt. They don't know that their potash god is his son.

Human civilization #2 might call him Yewrist MacOmnipotent and view him as a fat woman wearing a dress. They think of him as a lesser god, and worship his son much more fervently.

Dwarf civilization #1 might call him by his real name and picture him being a dwarf wearing adamantium armor. They don't believe in the potash god.

All three civilizations are now at odds with each other and conflict is more likely to erupt between them, due to their different interpretations of their god.
« Last Edit: September 19, 2009, 03:14:08 pm by Ghoulz »
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Granite26

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Re: Religion
« Reply #23 on: September 19, 2009, 10:46:46 am »
What's with the quotes?
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Re: Religion
« Reply #24 on: September 19, 2009, 11:16:52 am »
Quote from: Granite26 on July 10, 2008, 10:28:34 am
Also, there's crop failure associated with it (drought earlier in the year) so famine...
Of course, they might alternately decide the crop failure is because they didn't worship their newly decided-on god sufficiently, and consequentially believe him/her/it to be associated with crops, instead. :-\

edit:...Which may very well lead to bad things if it's a true god and is, in fact, associated with famine.
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Re: Religion
« Reply #25 on: September 20, 2009, 10:14:34 am »
Also i would like to see religios persecution kind of like in rome how christians were killed for hundreds of years and then constantine the emperor had a vision of god and decided that all of romes would now be christian
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