daremetoidareyo
2015-03-04, 03:18 PM
This is mostly a "Do think this would fly?" style question.
I want to make a CG ur-priest. Theologically & philosophically, one does not need to be evil to siphon powers from the "gods." In fact, this behavior is only evil insomuch as it opposes a sustained heirarchy: humans on the bottom, feeding faith and belief into gods, who then use their powers to cajole the populace and self aggrandize.
Those gods are no more entitled to faith-driven power than mortals are, (Hence the Chaotic part of the alignment) and if you truly interrogate the behavior of those gods, even the good ones, they are selfishly using this faith resource for their own ends, and only politically throw power around to the mere mortals below to foil the endeavors of mortals with guts and opposing gods. This results in a tyranny of sorts: The dominant races of a planet wind up with these arbitrary barriers that other races either have to accept or die. The value judgments of a human god of love therefor diminish the full spectrum of "love" for a minority thri-kreen population.
Seeing as how the gods are invested with the authority to wage their perpetual petty wars, it is reasonable to withhold faith from them, or heck, take away all of the faith they are being accorded, seeing as how after millenia, we still see no true justice in the universe. They had their shot, now let the mortals have a turn.
The character's end goal is to wipe away all faith in external power sources and instead reroute all of that power that is being taxed away and wasted to empower all the mortals of this plane to coexist as peacefully as possible, with all of the mortal's potential remaining in-house, fueling true actualization.
The alignment restriction is the part that I would need waved. The spell focus evil isn't even all that bad, and makes anthropological sense: of course it is "evil" to deny the gods what they feel entitled to, because gods are the rich entitled kids of the planes.
The thing I like about this character is the weird alliances he can make, worshippers of blibdoolpoop would totally be on his side one moment ("Corellan Elfgod oppresses us ALL! Screw him and his elf thralls") and ready to kill him the next ("...So does your highly prescriptive angry puddle god!").
I want to make a CG ur-priest. Theologically & philosophically, one does not need to be evil to siphon powers from the "gods." In fact, this behavior is only evil insomuch as it opposes a sustained heirarchy: humans on the bottom, feeding faith and belief into gods, who then use their powers to cajole the populace and self aggrandize.
Those gods are no more entitled to faith-driven power than mortals are, (Hence the Chaotic part of the alignment) and if you truly interrogate the behavior of those gods, even the good ones, they are selfishly using this faith resource for their own ends, and only politically throw power around to the mere mortals below to foil the endeavors of mortals with guts and opposing gods. This results in a tyranny of sorts: The dominant races of a planet wind up with these arbitrary barriers that other races either have to accept or die. The value judgments of a human god of love therefor diminish the full spectrum of "love" for a minority thri-kreen population.
Seeing as how the gods are invested with the authority to wage their perpetual petty wars, it is reasonable to withhold faith from them, or heck, take away all of the faith they are being accorded, seeing as how after millenia, we still see no true justice in the universe. They had their shot, now let the mortals have a turn.
The character's end goal is to wipe away all faith in external power sources and instead reroute all of that power that is being taxed away and wasted to empower all the mortals of this plane to coexist as peacefully as possible, with all of the mortal's potential remaining in-house, fueling true actualization.
The alignment restriction is the part that I would need waved. The spell focus evil isn't even all that bad, and makes anthropological sense: of course it is "evil" to deny the gods what they feel entitled to, because gods are the rich entitled kids of the planes.
The thing I like about this character is the weird alliances he can make, worshippers of blibdoolpoop would totally be on his side one moment ("Corellan Elfgod oppresses us ALL! Screw him and his elf thralls") and ready to kill him the next ("...So does your highly prescriptive angry puddle god!").