>How much do gods know about their worshippers? Are the requirements
>to become an initiate (and then a priest or rune lord) enforced by
>the god itself, or just by the cult heirarchy?
The gods know what their priests know and some of what their initiates know. They know what their initiates tell them and what their priests and Lords think. They loose track of their followers only when they are in the sacred areas of enemy gods.
>For example, suppose we have a Thanatari cultist who doesn't (for
>various reasons) much like Orlanth. Would it be possible for him
>to become an initiate of Orlanth? And later a Wind Lord, so that he
>could (eg) go on various Orlanthi Heroquests and deliberately fail
>them badly?
Baldly, only Illuminates can fool the god into letting them into a cult or continue in a cult when they have given alleigance to an enemy god. But see the much disputed case of Lakymydon (sp?) who managed to pervert the worship of Orlanth from within.
>This sort of thing is presumably fine for Illuminates, but what
>about the non-Illuminated? Must a prospective initiate fool the
>god, or simply the priest?
All initiations involve some level of HeroQuesting. It is the god who gets involved not just the priest.
Others will now proceed to disagree.
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