Just to prove that I can't stick to a single theme - Sartar doesn't feel like it much in the way of "landed gentry" in the style of, say 18th Century English Landed Gentry - that all the leaders have full time jobs leading and carrying out the ritual requirements of their position. Tarsh, I grant you, might start seeing this class (and indeed, has many more Seven Mothers members, which might even be taken as proving your point).
>>In somewhere like Prax I'd count it as a
>>reason for exiling someone in its own right. It also seems to rather
>>focus the missionary efforts on such slackers.
>
>But we weren't talking about Prax, we were talking about the
>relationship between the average provincial citizen (who live
>in places like Tarsh) and the lunars.
I was just failing to stick to the theme, and musing about one place the Lunars would have particular problems with this sort of offering.
> Secondly the missionaries
>do not set out to convert "slackers" but anybody who listens
>to their message. Being recognized by the Examiners as a Lunar
>confers a privileged position within the Empire (the Select*) of
>which a benefit can be said to live the life of a slacker.
There is that, of course. A legal and tax edge might offset the loss of the magical edge bought on by two out of three affinities that serve philosophical rather than immediately practical purposes.
>From a modern viewpoint, I know my argument of focusing on the value of
affinities to the worshipper is crass, but I feel that Thunder Rebels
and Storm Tribe describe eminently practical religions (well, bar
Eurmal) for a good reason.
>
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-- Kevin Blackburn Kevin_at_...
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