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Brother Ezra
Learned Scribe
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 Posted - 14 Apr 2004 : 16:04:36
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In my current campaign, one of our players originally chose to play a lawful good cleric of Tyr (Jonrek, for those of you who read the "Shards of Bloodstone" thread). After playing the character for a few sessions, the player has realized that he doesn't enjoy playing a LG character, and that the PC does't mesh well with the rest of the group (he is the lone LG character). The player wants to change the character's alignment to either NG or CG and worship another god.
I've told him that this is okay, but I don't want to handle it in a deus ex machina fashion (no, let's just pretend he was always a cleric of Tymora...). Instead, I've encouraged him to role play the characters crisis of faith in the game, and to demonstrate his conflict between his old beliefs and his desired ones. We'll see how it turns out.
I have a few questions about a cleric that abandons one faith for another:
1. How does the priesthood of Tyr feel about priests that leave their order. Are they treated well or are they pariahs?
2. How would another faith (Lathander or Mielikki are likely substitutes) feel about accepting a fallen priest?
3. About how much time do you think it would take for a character to be initiated into a new priesthood?
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 14 Apr 2004 : 17:34:32
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Originally posted by Brother Ezra
Instead, I've encouraged him to role play the characters crisis of faith in the game, and to demonstrate his conflict between his old beliefs and his desired ones. We'll see how it turns out.
To further this crisis of faith, I'd put him in a situation where he sees the law break down, or something actively evil happen under the auspices of law...
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Originally posted by Brother Ezra
1. How does the priesthood of Tyr feel about priests that leave their order. Are they treated well or are they pariahs?
I'd say it depended on the faith, and even within the faith, it would likely differ on an individual basis.
For a good aligned deity, if the character simply feels that they can not serve any more, I'd say there would be little stigma. Some individuals might feel that the character was too weak to serve that particular deity, but I doubt there'd be anything worse than a slightly cool reaction to priest leaving the faith.
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Originally posted by Brother Ezra
2. How would another faith (Lathander or Mielikki are likely substitutes) feel about accepting a fallen priest?
There are canon cases of deities accepting the service of someone who served another deity. As I recall, for example, Shaundakul got some of Waukeen's faithful while she was imprisoned by Graz'zt.
A deity accepting a priest that formerly followed another might kinda keep an eye on the new priest for a while (like, 3 levels, maybe), but would otherwise accept the new priest.
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3. About how much time do you think it would take for a character to be initiated into a new priesthood?
I'd make it a bit more difficult, in this case. Mayhaps the new faith would want to test this initiate, and send him on a special quest to prove his faith to the new deity. But other than that, I don't see it taking too much more time than a regular Joe would have to spend on becoming initiated. |
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Aesgereth
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Posted - 20 Apr 2004 : 11:44:17
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Clerics who abonden their original faiths are often required to atone (see the atonement spell) when being accepted into a new one...
As for how other religions will view the individual, I think differs from faith to faith, as well as individual to individual...
...I doubt Tyrrans would hunt down a recider, unless he does some particular vile act and/or pulls down lots of other faithfuls of the Tyrran faith with him
Evil-aligned religions may not be so swift to forgive and forget...
...Especially if the being in question recides for someone opposed to the original deity
No matter;
If a cleric constantly recides any clergy within a short period of time, he will most likely become distrusted, and deemed unworthy by all but the most chaotic faiths...
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Crisis of faith
