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Fully Formed Religions
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:06 am
by Dudel
Question that may or may not be able to be found out BUT I was wondering how may FULLY FORMED religions actually existed in Cantr. I've seen only a couple but they weren't fully practiced or preached.
I've seen Dorii and and something odd about the Sanctum but that is all myself.
Dudel was just wondering as it seems as most Cantrinians aren't very open to the idea of religion for the most part.
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:19 am
by kronos
I had trouble starting a religion, I spent days making a holy text and all that...only to have my character killed by someone who told me OOC that he killed me because it was not Christianity...
Re: Fully Formed Religions
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:40 am
by chase02
Dudel wrote:Dudel was just wondering as it seems as most Cantrinians aren't very open to the idea of religion for the most part.
I don't think they aren't open. I just think that most aren't interested in investing solid time into something with limited return (beyond, a bit of RP street cred perhaps?).
inb4 over analysing things again. oops, too late.
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:11 am
by SekoETC
One of my first characters became a believer of the Keeper but I think it's lame that the faith of the Keeper (and the priestess Leonorra~Ness Tiffa) have been allowed to be revived on another region. That's basically saying their Goddess is supported by the powers that be. If a religion fails to stay alive in Cantr or can't be revived later through someone studying it's writings then people should just let it die instead of practically CRBing to resurrect it.
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:24 am
by DylPickle
There are very few fully functional religions... I think one of the biggest problems is that a large majority of players base their newspawns on a pre-character creation platform, instead of basing their character primarily off the existing cultures of their spawnplace.
Yet there are a couple that still exist... If barely. The Order of Donnii is one, and the Church of the Holy Father is another. They don't really have much for followers outside of the pathetically small clergies. But they have fairly extensive texts, as well as rituals and traditions. (The secret induction ceremony to the Order of the Rose gets a big thumbs up --> Ben Clancy and his predecessor did well)
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:31 am
by joo
kronos wrote:...only to have my character killed by someone who told me OOC that he killed me because it was not Christianity...
Wut?
Those damn Christians...
It was probably Seko, lololol
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:39 pm
by chase02
LOL
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:29 pm
by Piscator
I don't think that Seko would commit such a blatant CRB. She's too much a professional player for that.
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:44 pm
by BlueNine
EDIT: Oops double-post
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:45 pm
by BlueNine
I have yet to see a religion going strong
I think many fail because usually its a newspawn suddenly popping up and saying "im the leader of this religion, all you people should give me resources to fund my church"
If there was a religion with strong, rich leaders who offer incentives (or punishments
) to those who follow it might last a while
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:22 pm
by *Wiro
I have a character who forces people in her religion.
As BlueNine said, if you have the power, use it. If you don't, don't even bother. ^^
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:41 pm
by frenchfisher
frenchfisher wrote:Depends on what you mean by "fully formed". I don't think I've seen one that I'd ever call "fully formed" in Cantr... and one of my characters was a preacher
(at least my character preached a religion I didn't create; religious views held by more than one character seem even more rare than religious views as a whole)
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:15 pm
by SekoETC
Piscator wrote:I don't think that Seko would commit such a blatant CRB. She's too much a professional player for that.
Yeah, they were just joking (lamely).
I remember someone (Satai?) telling me that when Sury Dond came to preach about Donii in Kiii, the people outside told him "we don't need a church, we've got Jaina".
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:58 pm
by kronos
You would have to be delusional to give her any credit let alone worship.
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:42 am
by SekoETC
Well you haven't been living in her town. It seems to me that Twirdy is all ready to worship her.