Reading the HQ rules and background stuff on Kralorela makes me think the Imperial Adorations, and what is currently called Godunya magic could either be modelled on Wizardly veneration or actually is actual honest to essense veneration. (I'm not too bothered whether it is one or the other, it just seems to fit with Mandarins being some sort of Liturgist relying on the written text of, amongst other things Mikadays laws).
Having said that, I wondered if there were any opinions on how I might structure orders and schools. I have considered "churches" for each province (not called "churches", that sounds to westerm), or possibly orders for each Exarch (or Archexarch), treating them almost as living Saints. Then again, previous Emperors might also have orders, Tharlurzni's order of alchemy, Vayobi's order of war and writing, Vashanti's order of righteousness, Mikadays legal order etc, and so on until there is a hugh mish mash of orders, schools and other Imperial organisations whose shared aim is the veneration of the Emperor.
My current model is that most Kralorelans, even Mandarins, do not usually concentrate magic, that people such Aptanace the Sage and other "mortal" culture heroes provide common magic and that the Mandarin's encourage worship of other entities as long as it does not interfere with the Imperial Adorations.
Next question* is: If the whole religion revolves around venerating the Emperor what happened when Shang Hsa took over. Would the veneration have gone up as far as the exile Exarchs in the Kingdoms of New Wisdom, would it have been directlyusurped by the New Dragon Ring, or would the Immanent Masters created a new religion to replace Imperial Adoration.
Keith
*this assumes I am anywhere near what other people think on the first part of
this. The MGFer in me makes me think the Dragon Kings are lacking in
effective magic and need to resort to hiring hsunchen, pentans and worse (agimori,
duck, morocanth, humakti, unspeakable adventurers) to do their dirty work - but
this is not really needed. The game would be set during the New Dragon Ring
period.
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