Re: Church of Ashara

From: jeffkyer <jakyer_at_ywGc3JH3JmBoqQdcWitZ68ageyzKYq0d4LO0rPeRnXdEgX7nfBLuCfgqpJIOxjSNVFtNc>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:01:10 -0000

Very true, Peter. One of the possible adventure seeds is trying to reconcile the various factions and churchlets found around the Mournsea. Probably doomed to failure but probably a lot of fun to run as a game.

Its remotely possible that the thought of being hung separately (and burned and quartered) by the Rokari might force them to put aside their differences... but I wouldn't bet on it. The Church of Slontos was really a catch all phrase for the localized church pre-Closing but the fragements, while sharing a comon mythology (mostly) have gone very much their separate ways.

As to how much in comon they might have with the Church of Ashara? Probably not as much as the Trader Princes would like though the Asharans are infamously syncretic. Various Houses have probably adopted and adapted their local Church of Slontos congrecations over the centuries.

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> Nicholas P wrote:
> >
> > Peter:
> >> Well, they did survive in the form of Slontos, which gets destroyed at
> >> the end of the Imperial Age.
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> > But the Ivinist Church of Slontos actively dislikes the Asharan Church, IIRC.
>
> Lots of churches dislike each other. Doesn't mean they have to have
> entirely separate mythological backgrounds.
>
> --Peter Metcalfe
>