Justin , it was my mistake in use of color.

 You have been talking , only , to the  Holy warrior who returned  from his  mission

In reply to donsr (msg # 121):

Thanks for that clarification. I've edited my last post accordingly
This message was last edited by the player at 06:50, Sat 24 Feb 2018.

I figure i'd put this up here, to address  the mistake  i made with the colors of the 'speech ' texts.

1.... any player can use  any color they wish...none of us can every post in the same post at the same time..so it doesn't matter.

2... for  my part, I use Red  for the 'big  guns"  Like  Kree's  Father , or the Emperor ect ect.. Orange   for   other notables Like  Reedrick... I also use   Blue  for Ivy and  DK  Green for Kree

3...Brown is my default NPC speech, then i say around Lavender and grey..gold....sometimes   an NPC who pops up again will have  thier color changed, if they are in  the same post  as another NPC

because almost all of the NPCs ( whether  triggered  by the players, or spawned out of need) have  thier own personalities . i try to stay with the first color  i gave them, whenever i can....sometimes, i mess up, like   with the  Holy warrior  Justin is  talking to.

 If  ever you are confused..please ask in OOC or  send me a PM. its better   to have me realize  my mistake   ( or yours) so we can fix  it for  the posts

In reply to donsr (msg # 123):

Is he a Holy warrior or a Priest?

the guy  that came in, that is all beat up and muddy is a Holy warrior.

In reply to donsr (msg # 125):

Oops assumed a Holy Warrior is generally a Paladin not a Priests.
This message was last edited by the player at 13:04, Sat 24 Feb 2018.

yes. Holy  Warriors  at PAladins, though the  term in these lands  is  not widely recognized.

Clerics  are in between  a Paladin and Priest, as they  will  Fight and can use  Spells... the Priests have all but given up thier ways of the weapons, and worry more   about  communing with thier god, and running the church..and..of  course recruiting  new followers

Paladins are akin to what we know in history as the Templar Knights just add magic.

Yep, Brie.  In these lands  I wanted to break it  down More....Paladins   here, at teh figthers of the temple...Go off  do stuff, whether  they didn't like to be couped up in a temple or studies..or  they had a reason to  go out into the  world

Clerics  want to be priests, though they do have weapons  training and   do go out into the world..they have thier eye  on having thier own temple, chapel ect ect someday


 Priests are not as good  with weapons  as Clerics  or Paladins...however, those who  rose through the Ranks  might surprise  some folks..they deal with  paperworl..praising thier  god and  fixing thier  temples

.......

as with all  types of characters..none  are set in stone..you may find a priest in the patch houses, laboring along  side laymen, to help thier villge grow... and you might  find one who will 'sell you' thier  god's favor   for the right  amount of coin

 It also varies by gods... 'workign man's' gods  will have less snobbish folks  runnign thier  temples, then those who are more powerful...and even then?.. it  could vary, by the person themslvess.

Cassie? you guys  can transition to the temples.

Will do.  I'll move my post over there.

I'm lost.

  Kree's  group is Mok... we are goign to be heading to the  Horns to see if  we can find  the Missing Arrows.

 I dropped Laf   from the game.

Oh? Why?

lack of activity, without giving us a heads up...i Figured he either bailed and didn't want to say so...or RL was beating him up..either way,i don't like to keep empty names on the  roster.

 the other  all gave me  a heads up, and that is  what is   important, not just for me as the GM...but  for the fellow players who want to RP  with that character.

 Haildas.... I did not see the last post you made for some reason. I have posted in the Plank, Nara's answer.

I have added  2 gods to the list that you would have leaned  so far... Gods outside the Empire  will be added as you learn of them..

as a Note:... the gods from  the lands beyond the Mist will have  found a home in thier 'like minded' Temples in Ironmound...for example  Tymora  and Beshaba would be seen as   Eta  and Netta.....Odin and Zeus  would be  seen in the Alpower

 If you have a question  about  one of   'your' gods or a god from a other lands ask in OOC or  PM  me

Myra,... the  High Priest  went into his offices  after taking the money the   Holywarrior brought in.

oh.

I will put this in the GAme Info  as well..

 Differences  ( in this world) of 'holy warriors'

 Priest:    single classed Cleric  who spends  most of thier  time tending thier church, seldom venturing outside their  compounds.. they tend  to  deal with  thier   gods praises  and political rise  ( and coin!)... of course there will be small town priests that will wield  a weapon to protect thier village  and temple.

 Clerics:..Halfbreed of a Paladin and a priest. More apt  to take to weapons , missions and protection, as well as  'going out in the world' to spread the fame of thier god..some of the higher priests may be  Clerics of great fame, who can no longer travel, but lend their name to thier god.. Coin still can raise  a non-combatant above a stout  cleric.

Paladins:   Though they are  faithful to thier god... they are more  restless  and eager to go out and   do quests... Missions and  attack those  who stand against thier   god..regardless of  which side of the line they are..they will protect those they feel are followers  of thier  gods..or need protection..(( IE:  A Paladin of the Red Isles would protect Halflings  from  the Empire Nay, regardless of if those  halflings are a slaver ship... to them, they are protecting thier own ))...Paladins rarely make it to the higher  reaches   of thier  faith's  leaders ...indeed. most of the leaders   may be jealous of those  who go out and fight for thier gods.

I'd say the view of each might vary a bit by deity.

For example, Tra is goddess of hunting. I rather think her faith might value Paladins more highly, as they're out there actually hunting for her.

(Well, at least to the goddess herself. The church hierarchy might deviate from that, though probably not too much as they all have to follow their Lady's orders.)

One of the biggest justifications behind Luthien as Arrow is that he's hunting slavers...and thus honoring the goddess of the hunt. (Also, the Greek equivalent Artemis was very much into protecting children)

On a similar note, priests, then, would be clerics in training, turning over the soft desk jobs to new priests as they turn into clerics so they can go bring glory to their goddess by hunting things.

War Gods (and the Thief/assassin gods) are also likely to prioritize taking the field over desk jobs. On the other hand, healing gods will absolutely prioritize the desk jobs, cause that's who heals the sick people at home.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:26, Sun 04 Mar 2018.

Indeed..some of those could be the case... but as we have seen in the crusades.  There are people who follow thier  god, for the positon  and   coin that comes with it.....

 Its Much better to sit back and let the eager ones do the dying, while you stack up your coins  and buy yourself new robes  and  gilted holysmybols

now..folks have different  reactions  as well.. a lowly  fisherman  might  look in awe  at the Hugh priest as he gives  his thanks ( and  donation ) to the church... But that same fisherman would treat a Paladin or  Cleric to a homemade meal for stopping by and  lending aid...

To an extent. Being a hypocrite doesn't work nearly so well when celestials have been known to show up to glare at evil doers, and the gods/goddesses themselves have been known to walk on the prime material plane. The guy taking the soft desk job when he's supposed to be serving a war god is likely to see clerics of the same faith going Inquisition on his ass when the wargod finds him unworthy.

Again, using Greek equivalents, the last time a mom bragged about being more awesome than Leto, mother of Apollo and Artemis, by having 14 kids to Leto's 2, Apollo and Artemis promptly responded by shooting all 14 of those kids dead.

In short, not the same thing as Christianity, where people get away with all kinds of shit. In D&D, the gods tend to be a lot more on point, and hypocrisy gets busted MUCH faster. Also, the god can choose to not grant you spells in the morning if you're a hypocrite.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:11, Sun 04 Mar 2018.

 Yep..all that is  true...
as a point of RL.. I am of Hungarian heritage . My grandparents came over  form the old   coutnry in the  late 1890s.. My day was Born in Nova scotia ..then came to PA.. and he was   naturalized  served in WWII.. I have an Old Pic of  my Mom's dad in a Uniform from Hungray ...i think it was artillary..still trying to figure it out...

 anyway..our church ( which was closed down ..sold.. tore down and is now a cance r reasearch cneter) was  'The Hungarian  church".. my town, Windber PA  was an Old coal mine town..they seprated  immagrants used thier national grudges agaiunst each other  by says to to Hunafrains, " thsoe DAgoes   loaded more coal then you"... or To the Irish folks ".. Those Limeys  are making yuou look bad"...

 through it all thier priests were reverd  , asked over   for dinner, given gifts ect ect.. Churchs  used thier social halls for   Union  meetings..some of those  churches  were burned  down by the  'pickertons'   and Company thugs... then..they started  Buying off priests...

 fast forward.. we had a pirest take over , in the  last years of  my little church... it was a golden age.. he published stuff  about Hungarian saints who wee heros ( St stephen  ect ect) some good stories if you wnat to ehar them..about battles and such... The Bigger  Church was jealous..alot of thier people were comign to our church..their priest was 'less then  worried" about  normal folks..but  paid alot of attention to business  men and thier families....My parents poured money   as was thier 'duty'..but then the hammer fell.. the Great priest was a child molester.. he was sent to Arizona.. and  died there... our  curch crumbled.. and when my mom and Dad  died, the Big  church that had  taken over our chruch as well..wouldn't let us use  the  brand new hall for the furnal dinners... we ahd to get some one to cater  in our old  small chruch basement....

 when my wife passed, her church..BEGGED me to allow the church ladies to cook for us...

 so..in this  nut shell we see  the Glory that  hid the dark actions of  one man... and the  repulsive 'call of the coin' for the other   church....I can relate this to the   days in england  where people  could 'buy dispansations' or get into ehaven, if thier  son would become a bishop( for the right prices)..

  I try to  weave all this into the backround.. the sting of  RL..and   disgust of History..and just plain old human nature...it  adds a bit of  a RP point, and makes  the characters  have to  RP out actons , they normally woukld just rubber stamp!

True enough...but that was all real life.

D&D life, the gods are watching, and they will smite your ass if you try pull shit like that. A cleric of Eta guilty of child molestation sure as F*** isn't waking up with spells the next day...or ever again, really.

And there's a decent chance that Luckily (for the child, goddess of good fortune and all) the roof collapses on the priest's head and kills him before he can do anything too terrible.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:13, Sun 04 Mar 2018.