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DF Suggestions / Regional and National Deities & Deification
« on: February 18, 2021, 09:12:41 am »
I'm approaching this subject a bit with learning from classes I had years ago, but also largely from personal travels to isolated parts of the real world
To give context for the first Idea: If I go to a part of the world where they still worship ancestor spirits and they learn I am from any western nation. Many of them believe that western nations and everyone in them worships the western God (Christianity) obviously that doesn't reflect reality, but for them that is regional. The Christian God only rules in western nations and that is where his power exists, but here in, wherever we are, the ancestors hold power over this region and so we worship them
In older days that would often lead to groups converting to the local religion when they would immigrate there
1a. Upon embarking on a fort if the area has a local religion such as worshipping a forest titan some dwarves may decide to convert to that religion, and may even pick up relevant values if they are different enough
1b. This can lead to religious confrontation if certain requirements are met; such as their being local organized religious groups with leaders. These leaders may react negatively to the conversion outside the pantheon or the local religion might react negatively to the invasion of these new religious beliefs and can lead to conflicts and rivalries
2. A civilization during world gen has it's default gods based around the race and sometimes the primary religion of a civilization changes with recent updates, but now a civilization officially picks approved and accepted religions. This is because in most non-western nations one's religious belief is directly tied to one's national identity. You may be seen as a national traitor by converting out(even if it is to convert to nothing at all). In practice this would just make the possibility of rivalries higher. I think a religious persecution system might be a downer
3. Deification that already exists in game. Titan rampages? Now he is god of murder. It already exists, but I see it only exists for immortal mega-beasts
what about Urist? He successfully defeated the invasion of the HFS when the dwarves dug too deep and lived to a ripe old age. Realistically he would probably be the source of worship if people are willing to worship a giant monster with animal level intellect
Now Urist who defeated the end of everything is the god of bravery, determination, etc
To give context for the first Idea: If I go to a part of the world where they still worship ancestor spirits and they learn I am from any western nation. Many of them believe that western nations and everyone in them worships the western God (Christianity) obviously that doesn't reflect reality, but for them that is regional. The Christian God only rules in western nations and that is where his power exists, but here in, wherever we are, the ancestors hold power over this region and so we worship them
In older days that would often lead to groups converting to the local religion when they would immigrate there
1a. Upon embarking on a fort if the area has a local religion such as worshipping a forest titan some dwarves may decide to convert to that religion, and may even pick up relevant values if they are different enough
1b. This can lead to religious confrontation if certain requirements are met; such as their being local organized religious groups with leaders. These leaders may react negatively to the conversion outside the pantheon or the local religion might react negatively to the invasion of these new religious beliefs and can lead to conflicts and rivalries
2. A civilization during world gen has it's default gods based around the race and sometimes the primary religion of a civilization changes with recent updates, but now a civilization officially picks approved and accepted religions. This is because in most non-western nations one's religious belief is directly tied to one's national identity. You may be seen as a national traitor by converting out(even if it is to convert to nothing at all). In practice this would just make the possibility of rivalries higher. I think a religious persecution system might be a downer
3. Deification that already exists in game. Titan rampages? Now he is god of murder. It already exists, but I see it only exists for immortal mega-beasts
what about Urist? He successfully defeated the invasion of the HFS when the dwarves dug too deep and lived to a ripe old age. Realistically he would probably be the source of worship if people are willing to worship a giant monster with animal level intellect
Now Urist who defeated the end of everything is the god of bravery, determination, etc