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Crackpot Religions, Ltd.
14 years ago
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I went to Florida and, inspired by the local ratio of religious institutions to actual living citizens (1:1), I finally got down to making up religions for the realm of Sejhat, all of which are reasonably silly and inaccurate affairs that I'm sure the real, honest-to-goodness god of creation, Sejhat, would get a real kick out of if he hadn't had his unhappy head cut off of his really pissed off body and FedExed to the middle of nowhere.
Still, there's something to be said about religion. It has a way of motivating people, reflecting both individual and social norms, codifying conduct, and generally making an earnest attempt to explain the looniness that is the mortal experience.
There's an installment for each of the four major factions: the Beastfolk, the Dwarves, the Elves, and the Humans. It was great fun trying to create faiths based on racial, social, and historical contexts and may go a long ways toward explaining the dispositions of the races themselves. Personally, I'm kind of torn between the Dwarves and the Beastfolk.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7180552
The Beastfolk faith, called Avism, is a religion with two principal deities of equal power: Hawk and Raven. While Hawk leans towards virtuous behavior and is the guardian of ascended souls, Raven is also benevolent in a more peculiar and creative fashion. The strife of the world is largely explained by the natural conflict and friction of the two, matched by the inherent friction of the Beastfolk- a people at odds with their very nature.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7180590
The Dwarven faith, called Culainism, is something of a hybrid between Celtic and Norse mythologies. They have five predominant gods called Heroes, divine brothers and sisters who don't always agree, but guide and aid the Dwarves in their struggles against their rivals. It is a faith steeped in song, valor, rivalry, unity, and tradition.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7180623
The Elven faith, called simply the Pantheon, is a roughly Greco-Roman inspired panoply of 150 Auspices, demigods of varying power, and their rise to the apex of civilization before falling prey to vanity, distrust, and eventually all-out war. From these flawed, but powerful beings rise the greatest virtues and aspirations of the Elven people.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7180651
The Human faith, called Odem, is inspired by Islam and Zoroastrianism. It is a monotheistic faith that follows Mankind and its offshoots through their cosmic struggle between the mysterious, benevolent power of the Lord and the very embodiment of evil, Nadir, king of oblivion. Intertwined with the rise, fall, and rebirth of the faith is the story of the Prophets, their Disciples, and the rise of the Caliphate as a major world power defined by faith.
Individually, I hope that they are compelling and intriguing fake faiths, but together!
Together... they will give you a headache. Read them separately.
Still, there's something to be said about religion. It has a way of motivating people, reflecting both individual and social norms, codifying conduct, and generally making an earnest attempt to explain the looniness that is the mortal experience.
There's an installment for each of the four major factions: the Beastfolk, the Dwarves, the Elves, and the Humans. It was great fun trying to create faiths based on racial, social, and historical contexts and may go a long ways toward explaining the dispositions of the races themselves. Personally, I'm kind of torn between the Dwarves and the Beastfolk.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7180552
The Beastfolk faith, called Avism, is a religion with two principal deities of equal power: Hawk and Raven. While Hawk leans towards virtuous behavior and is the guardian of ascended souls, Raven is also benevolent in a more peculiar and creative fashion. The strife of the world is largely explained by the natural conflict and friction of the two, matched by the inherent friction of the Beastfolk- a people at odds with their very nature.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7180590
The Dwarven faith, called Culainism, is something of a hybrid between Celtic and Norse mythologies. They have five predominant gods called Heroes, divine brothers and sisters who don't always agree, but guide and aid the Dwarves in their struggles against their rivals. It is a faith steeped in song, valor, rivalry, unity, and tradition.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7180623
The Elven faith, called simply the Pantheon, is a roughly Greco-Roman inspired panoply of 150 Auspices, demigods of varying power, and their rise to the apex of civilization before falling prey to vanity, distrust, and eventually all-out war. From these flawed, but powerful beings rise the greatest virtues and aspirations of the Elven people.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7180651
The Human faith, called Odem, is inspired by Islam and Zoroastrianism. It is a monotheistic faith that follows Mankind and its offshoots through their cosmic struggle between the mysterious, benevolent power of the Lord and the very embodiment of evil, Nadir, king of oblivion. Intertwined with the rise, fall, and rebirth of the faith is the story of the Prophets, their Disciples, and the rise of the Caliphate as a major world power defined by faith.
Individually, I hope that they are compelling and intriguing fake faiths, but together!
Together... they will give you a headache. Read them separately.
RGibson
~rgibson
And on the opposite extreme, when I wrote my book, I deliberately left out any religion at all. The characters live in such a secular society there's not even any superstitions or concept of an afterlife. It made writing dialogue tricky sometimes. You don't realize how any phrases, exclaimations and swear words contain religious references until you can't use them any more.
MrInitialMan
~mrinitialman
The trick for me is to make a monarchy/theocracy that's NOT comparable to Roman Catholicism.
