concentration counter to membership?

From: bethexton_at_...
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 15:21:34 -0000

Can you be a lay member/communal worshipper/spiritist, if you are counter-concentrated? What about higher levels? That is, assume that you are concentrated in innate magic (talents), could you:

1. be a spiritist, not gain charms, but have a relationship with your shaman?
2. Be a communal worshipper? Presumably not praying directly for divine aid, but could you offer community support in this regard?
3. Be a lay member of a wizardish congregation? If so, would you benefit from blessings?

I would presume that even if the above are positive you could not progress any farther (a liturgist is almost defined by the blessings they give, a practitioner has to be able to communicate with spirits, an initiate has to go to his god's home and experience the myths.

The question may seem odd, but what I'm looking at is if someone starts off with mixed worship, then concentrates on one source of magic, can they remain a member of parts that follow a different source, or are they automatically cut off? (think of someone who was a communal worshipper of Orlanth and also a spiritist of Kolat, then decides to concentrate on animism. Is he then automatically ejected from the theistic rites? Or if a lay member of the Rokari church decides to concentrate on innate magic, can anyone tell, and would they be automatically excommunicated or banned or something?)

Or maybe this is a "technically it isn't impossible, but people could tell, and they'd kick you out anyway, so it doesn't really matter" sort of thing?

Or maybe it is a "if you are concentrated in one sort of magic, even having communal/lay/spiritist level membership would pollute your concentration." sort of thing?

--Bryan