Well, you're sorta right, but there are also cults that don't have gods -- Basmol is dead, frex.
> As for Simon Hibbs comment re "this silly calender" referring to year 1 etc,
>and enquiring whose calender it is. The answer is taht it is pretty much
>everyones, except the Lunars (and even they acknowledge its validity), since it
>is based on a universal event, the Ascendence of The Sun on the start of its
>daily migration through Hell and the Sky etc. The Malkioni use this calender,
>and they are really into Theist constructs as we all know! <G>
In my Ralios campaign, a Lhankor Mhy seer could perhaps tell you the date using that calendar (perhaps off by a year or two). But everyone else uses a far more useful calendar, one that both lets you remember stuff and tells you handy information. In Belovaking lands, it's now Year 20 of Ekel Field-Destroyer. This not only lets you know that he came to power a few years after you were born, but it also tells you that people are starting to worry about his successor, since he's been in power for a long time.
[And it means the players can't tell what year they're in, when the Ban will end, etc.]
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