Path of Wordsmithing has been labeled wrong in the new faith system

[DreamsOfBlue]

I'm kinda wondering why this is being viewed as a "Lore says this is evil thing, so it HAS to be apostate" when the church thing kinda just seems like a your interpretation mechanic? Like why are people who worship Pylae being allowed to be in the pantheon church when Pylae is 100% not connected to the pantheon at ALL, but they can't view chaos as animism?

Kinda confused (But I also don't have any skin in the game because I'm not involved in anything faith wise)

I just don't understand what is the point of having different faith / deity if its so rigid.

I thought the entire point could be "I worship chaos, but in an animist way" or "I worship chaos, but in an apostate way"

Now I'm being told "Any and all worship of chaos is apostate" which to me seems entirely wrong.



The label should be defined with how the belief is and how the religion acts, within the practitioners themselves.

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I'm gonna dip my toes in here a lil' bit.

I think the labeling on an OOC level doesn't matter so much as the IC perception of Chaos as a whole. Yes, I play the other Harmony person. Yes, I've said IC that Order and Chaos must be in balance.

But I have to point out that what you are preaching in-character (as said by me, in character) is pretty much a drop of water against a tidal wave. Chaos has, in exceptionally recent memory, caused a terrible amount of suffering and destruction. To affect the change you're describing, here, you need to produce a tangible in-character understanding so the layman can at least grasp the nature of what you're speaking about.

As it stands, someone worshiping Chaos will at best earn odd looks, and at worst, be called exactly that: an apostate.

Catildre is not part of the Pantheon. The things she represented are innately tied to Ba'al/Belial and forces of destruction.

This is similar to the Aphros situation of using Occult for good things - you have good intentions! That does not change the fact that at it's very core, the occult is still a terribly destructive force born out of a desire to destroy.

Yes but how the world percieves it absolutely has NOTHING to do with where my faith comes from.

My faith comes from an Animist source. Period.


No matter of admin or anyone telling me "but chaos evil" will change my IC. That is NOT my ic. My religion is Animist and fits within its belief.


And it doesn't even clash with the lore.