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**Acacea** · 09-14-07, 01:47 PM

I had a question regarding this ability, actually - what are they sensing? It's easy with clerics, who are conduits to the divine. It's easily plausible that one deity whispers to his cleric that this man is linked with another bad one. But what about casual followers? There are a lot of people with deities in the deity field who don't know anything about the church, don't play the relations, aren't necessarily even about what their chosen deity is about, because they aren't clerics and just picked it because it sounded nice or appropriate. What is there to sense? I don't really buy that any level 1 cleric can smell who the last god you prayed to was...it seems more like you'd have to have an actual connection, you know?

Reasonable things I can imagine getting a sense of from a non divine character - consecrated amulets, arcane casters who have used the censer of arcane devotion, someone under a blessing from an enemy god... but for several characters, it just seems like the deity field is just a word and not REALLY something clerics should be able to judge them on. On the other hand, most people probably shouldn't HAVE a single deity in the field unless they were devout in some fashion - not in the praying at church kind of way, but you know, as some people don't do that even if they are devout. "My life is in your hands" look to that deity over others for answers etc kind of way.

09-14-07, 01:47 PM	#13
Acacea World Leader Characters Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,225 Thanks: 89 Thanked 525 Times in 262 Posts	Re: Knowing Deity relationships I had a question regarding this ability, actually - what are they sensing? It's easy with clerics, who are conduits to the divine. It's easily plausible that one deity whispers to his cleric that this man is linked with another bad one. But what about casual followers? There are a lot of people with deities in the deity field who don't know anything about the church, don't play the relations, aren't necessarily even about what their chosen deity is about, because they aren't clerics and just picked it because it sounded nice or appropriate. What is there to sense? I don't really buy that any level 1 cleric can smell who the last god you prayed to was...it seems more like you'd have to have an actual connection, you know? Reasonable things I can imagine getting a sense of from a non divine character - consecrated amulets, arcane casters who have used the censer of arcane devotion, someone under a blessing from an enemy god... but for several characters, it just seems like the deity field is just a word and not REALLY something clerics should be able to judge them on. On the other hand, most people probably shouldn't HAVE a single deity in the field unless they were devout in some fashion - not in the praying at church kind of way, but you know, as some people don't do that even if they are devout. "My life is in your hands" look to that deity over others for answers etc kind of way.