Sanguis Astroism

[JeVondair]

btw JeVondair– Rynn should totes join SA. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

Meh. Rynn's not a sceneboy, and no one has ever really tried to "illuminate" him. Besides, the RP of him being of the desert tribes fits too well with VE. The disowned and disgraced Lion'el, who disavowed VE in favor of SA when he renounced ties to his family and proper speech, will have to do.

[Indirik]

Once we have everyone, we can declare victory. Then we can dissolve it all, and let everyone get back to their normal, boring religions.

[Tandaros]

Meh. Rynn's not a sceneboy

We have a hipster prime minister? eh, it suits us. 

[Stabbity]

I present... Rynn.

[Arundel]

The woman who was leading AP just joined... Wtf?

Religious continuity much?

Oh yeah, the decision was made lightly and there was absolutely no circumstances leading up to it. I guess you really do know everything...

...Nawt.

[Eldargard]

I can vouch for that. There is quite a back story behind Alice's moves. Now I just need to sort out how Brantley is going to react to it all...

[Solari]

Once we have everyone, we can declare victory. Then we can dissolve it all, and let everyone get back to their normal, boring religions.

Nonsense. Either schisms will get coded, and we'll have legit wars over the Church's resources, or we'll treat the whole enterprise like the Catholic Church in medieval times, as a broker of war and intrigue. It's a fine line between smothering people in peace and nudging people into periodic but not catastrophic religious war, but I'm confident that we'll figure it out. And if not, then we'll just do what you suggest.

[Woelfy]

Oh yeah, the decision was made lightly and there was absolutely no circumstances leading up to it. I guess you really do know everything...

...Nawt.

Aww, little Arundel has a hurt feeling! 

[Eldargard]

Nonsense. Either schisms will get coded, and we'll have legit wars over the Church's resources, or we'll treat the whole enterprise like the Catholic Church in medieval times, as a broker of war and intrigue. It's a fine line between smothering people in peace and nudging people into periodic but not catastrophic religious war, but I'm confident that we'll figure it out. And if not, then we'll just do what you suggest.

I would really like to see SA gain convenient wide dominance. To that end I am also not as excited about schisms as others might be. Having a single, dominant, religion would add so much to the SMA feel of Dwight. Suddenly, characters are religious or not and pieces of the carious codes of chivalry fit so much more nicely. I would so love to see this happen!

[Tandaros]

I'm with Tom in that I think religion in BM should more often serve as a flashpoint for conflict and disputes, as it did in the Middle Ages and generally everywhere humans go. Conflict over material and land often miraculously finds justification in God, err, Bloodstars. People would often join the Catholic Church just to gain political leverage, as I'm sure a large number of Dwilight nobles have done, and use said leverage to hammer on the political competition.

I think a huge fight between the northern theocracies over some minor doctrinal point would be amazing fun and fit the bill for religion. All this peaceful cooperation is kinda unrealistic. 

[JeVondair]

I think a huge fight between the northern theocracies over some minor doctrinal point would be amazing fun and fit the bill for religion. All this peaceful cooperation is kinda unrealistic. 

A pity Alison did not keep her schism in the north, then. For My part, I wish SA took a tyrannical, self serving turn, as the Catholic popes did. I am not too familiar with precisely how religion works in this game. Is it all RP? Or is there moneyflow involved somewhere?

#everthed'haran

[Chenier]

Huge money flows to the endless money pits which some people call "temples".

[Arundel]

Aww, little Arundel has a hurt feeling! 

Yes, many tears were had.

[Glaumring the Fox]

I would really like to see SA gain convenient wide dominance. To that end I am also not as excited about schisms as others might be. Having a single, dominant, religion would add so much to the SMA feel of Dwight. Suddenly, characters are religious or not and pieces of the carious codes of chivalry fit so much more nicely. I would so love to see this happen!

I would like to see a plethora of religions. SA is a north eastern religion. An alien religion. The west lands have their own ways. Not say that Astrum hasnt had influence but mainly the north and Farronite and previously Asylon. With a weak Iashular and a republican Farronite and a smattering of temples in Asylon to D'Hara. If SA doesnt win against Aurvandiil those lands will divide into even more religions. The only way to fight uniformity is to become more diverse than SA.

[Chenier]

I would like to see a plethora of religions. SA is a north eastern religion. An alien religion. The west lands have their own ways. Not say that Astrum hasnt had influence but mainly the north and Farronite and previously Asylon. With a weak Iashular and a republican Farronite and a smattering of temples in Asylon to D'Hara. If SA doesnt win against Aurvandiil those lands will divide into even more religions. The only way to fight uniformity is to become more diverse than SA.

And yet the only way to fight those who want to destroy SA is to join up with SA, because the anti-SAers aren't very selective in their targets.

Aurvandil is one of the best thing that's happened to SA in a while, because it gives them something to unite around and because it makes joining up a lot more alluring to the non-SA states it attacks. Aurvandil doesn't help create diversity, it polarizes.