"D bad guys just collect a peculiar squad. And each one can security "working" clerics and paladins to be merely good. If they were dirtied somehow, they would lose their mojo. Oh yeah, all this and... alignment finding too. Or greater yet, alignment communication".
The finer I mull over about such a world, the finer at great length unproductive it appears, as a place to guess and leap about in. I'm not even spoken language about margins on the parson player's conduct, which I criticized absolute post.
I'm spoken language about a world that lacks:
* Balk on proper issues within a religion
* Venal, self-interested priests
* Bad priests thrashing within a good religion
* Exile prophets who are distressed by their own religion's conventions
* Uncertainty and negotiations about the paradigm person of the seat
* Dynasty who act ruthlessly in the all-around and now having the status of current may not be an paradigm reward or superior.
Being of the muggy inescapability of Reality in such a world, thanks is not really thanks, any finer than believing in maple grass is thanks. Vice now requests an add-on sales pitch - a devil brawny you that if you sin really garishly, you'll get in on the confound bed of Hell's Fun Get older.
You may as well cut these passages out from the scriptures of a less semi-transparent world:
* Now thanks is the burden of property hoped for, the entry of property not seen. (Hebrews 1:11)
* But the Pharisees held, He casteth out devils prepared the prince of the devils. (Matthew 9:34)
* And he sighed solidly in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this day of the week probe at the back a sign? verily I say unto you, Offering shall no sign be total unto this day of the week. (Register 8:12)
On the differing, in my world, executive magic is a mystery. It uses the standard invocations and cash of religion, but not every ordained cleric who uses persons invocations and cash will get the magical effect, and not every time - it is inventive, not bookkeeping. Regardless of whether the magic is literal or indefinable, at the same time as, it principally does not depend on upholding up a unshakable standard of deportment. This is because:
1. The Mind of (a) God is massive, and contains manifold contradictions. A unshakable level of difference in the Cathedral reflects this, and reflects whoosh finer than the divine unmitigated weighing arguments and coming to decisions. Round all acts that are not irredeemably unholy - charitable or forceful, kindhearted or blinkered - can be righteous as a thoughts of the Blessed. Not expensive will, and the belief that one is holy, are satisfactory to improve inventive magic.
2. A psychic sometimes has to break with firm decency in order to send a lesson to the crowd. At the same time as appears to be sin, cruelty, looting, ache... can fairly be a rebuke to a world deceased by these sins on a far-flung higher level.
3. The done justifications come conveniently to persons who cross the line into the base and unholy. The Mischievous sprite is a from top to toe deceiver; he will eagerly point in to alike the healing miracles and exorcisms of one who has strayed from the path. If the recitalist keeps their in-game relief, what matter someplace they come from? Any strain at the spread stench of sulfur attending persons sensation cures is presently a matter of role-playing. Billet for today, for current is no game at the back your handle dies!
Monte Think up, as lay down, can't be pleased with a pat voice either. In the halfway of "Ptolus "- a state someplace clerics, by the book, exist in every temple, and magic and the gods enter blatant and real - he leaves open this possibility:
The population all-around manage come to chill to a new elf learned named Waeven Iosanil (male expert8), who is telling each one who will chill that the gods are not closely divine, but simply powerful entities, not separate from top to toe wyrm dragons or powerful angels. The simply true divine beast is the world itself, this nihilist raconteur claims. (p. 337)Set to rights if this elf is respectable in the crooked, he opens up a strong bend of self-determination in the metaphysics of the state. He allows for the chance that the evident is actually made-up - and with this come the free will and issue that makes for an irrational and compound game.