First off, I don't have Divine Favor; it's on my "to get" list, right after Wildcards, Limitations, and a few Pyramids I'm still missing.
I've got this one religion in my muskets-and-magery fantasy setting, a religion inspired at least in part by Buddhism and Jainism. Problem is, I don't really know what kinds of "divine" abilities its adherents would receive or develop. I'm also not sure what kinds of ceremonies it would have or what form the mass worship would take.
This religion co-exists in the setting with a Roman Catholic Spanish Inquisition expy, a Greco-Roman inspired pantheon, and two other polytheistic religions, though separated by an ocean.
What I have follows:
Overview
Worshipped primarily in the kobold nation of Shakdran, in the northern jungles of the southern Umoja continent, Shaktism is often considered an atheistic religion. It reveres but does not promote active worship of spirits and similar entities. The religion is considered more of a philosophy by the religions of the northern Ophari continent; a philosophy for achieving a state of divinity rather than one of worshipping a deity or pantheon.
Shaktism is very accepting of the deities of other religions, seeing them all – even Yohévohé, of the Church of the One True God – as aspects of what Shaktism calls the Divine All.
Selected Mythology Passages
Basic Philosophies
The world did not begin. The world will not end. The world has always existed, and will continue to exist. The world is eternal. The world is the Divine All, and the Divine All is the world.
Time moves in cycles. Water rises when heated, and falls from the sky when it cools. The stars rotate in the sky, the planets move in predetermined paths across the sky. Life starts, grows, dies, and feeds new life. So it has ever been, so it will always be. The actions of the past inform us of the future. The past and the future are ever-changing; the present does not exist.
Life exists. Life has always existed. Life will always exist. Life cannot be completely obliterated. There is life in the rocks, in the immovable mountains, in the sky above, in the earth below, in the trees, in the water. There will always be life.
Magic is the lifestream of the world. Life creates it, makes it grow. Will harnesses magic. Intellect may shape magic, but Will harnesses it. Will is what enables people to achieve oneness with the Divine All. The Divine All transcends the mortal coils. The gods of the other religions are aspects of the Divine All; give the other gods the proper reverence.
"Magic is the bloodstream of the universe! Forget all you know . . . or think you know. All that you require is your intuition."
– The High Aldwin, Willow.
So, thoughts on how to expand this?
A Fantasy Religion In Need Of Powers/Spells?
I've got this one religion in my muskets-and-magery fantasy setting, a religion inspired at least in part by Buddhism and Jainism. Problem is, I don't really know what kinds of "divine" abilities its adherents would receive or develop. I'm also not sure what kinds of ceremonies it would have or what form the mass worship would take.
This religion co-exists in the setting with a Roman Catholic Spanish Inquisition expy, a Greco-Roman inspired pantheon, and two other polytheistic religions, though separated by an ocean.
What I have follows:
Overview
Worshipped primarily in the kobold nation of Shakdran, in the northern jungles of the southern Umoja continent, Shaktism is often considered an atheistic religion. It reveres but does not promote active worship of spirits and similar entities. The religion is considered more of a philosophy by the religions of the northern Ophari continent; a philosophy for achieving a state of divinity rather than one of worshipping a deity or pantheon.
Shaktism is very accepting of the deities of other religions, seeing them all – even Yohévohé, of the Church of the One True God – as aspects of what Shaktism calls the Divine All.
Selected Mythology Passages
Basic Philosophies
The world did not begin. The world will not end. The world has always existed, and will continue to exist. The world is eternal. The world is the Divine All, and the Divine All is the world.
Time moves in cycles. Water rises when heated, and falls from the sky when it cools. The stars rotate in the sky, the planets move in predetermined paths across the sky. Life starts, grows, dies, and feeds new life. So it has ever been, so it will always be. The actions of the past inform us of the future. The past and the future are ever-changing; the present does not exist.
Life exists. Life has always existed. Life will always exist. Life cannot be completely obliterated. There is life in the rocks, in the immovable mountains, in the sky above, in the earth below, in the trees, in the water. There will always be life.
Magic is the lifestream of the world. Life creates it, makes it grow. Will harnesses magic. Intellect may shape magic, but Will harnesses it. Will is what enables people to achieve oneness with the Divine All. The Divine All transcends the mortal coils. The gods of the other religions are aspects of the Divine All; give the other gods the proper reverence.
"Magic is the bloodstream of the universe! Forget all you know . . . or think you know. All that you require is your intuition."
– The High Aldwin, Willow.
So, thoughts on how to expand this?
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