If you didn't intend them to sound like thinly-veiled threats, you really must suck at it, because that's exactly what they sounded like As far as I recall, each one contained some reference to how the peasants were upset about their Lord not following Echad, or how Galen couldn't be responsible for what the peasants did, or something like that.
Not threats, no. More like "hey here's a good RP reason to join my Church..." I guess if you really saw them as threats, I apologize. I was more just playing off the fact that I figured it was common knowledge peasants get antsy when their "local lord does not share the faith" or w/e.
I have no OOC problem with what Galen did. Like you, I think it's a welcome bit of fun. I just think it's silly for Vellos to be complaining that it's lopsided, when of course it's lopsided, given how it was started!
Oh, for sure. I don't mean to imply that I didn't know or expect things would be like this, either. Like I said, it was basically a "let's see where Galen ends up" kind of thing, since I was strongly considering deleting him. I think Vellos perhaps was more just complaining about how sometimes people want fun/action to happen, and then something as ridiculous as this happens and everyone just jumps on the "Oh, yeah that's dumb and a bad guy" bandwagon and "1, 2, 3" the guy is dealt with all back to normal.
For instance, Oradrikkon has found a way to stimulate the conflict while remaining fairly neutral and appearing to simply just be seeking justice/fairness. He has condemned Galen multiple times, but has merely not jumped on (and resisted) Sigrún's witch-hunt bandwagon.
This is not true at all. Baranion and Sigrún follow another religion, and aren't interested in the Church of Echad (and Sigrún was particularly insulted when Galen called her Gods false Gods).
Well that's good to know, I wish either of them would have bothered to even tell Galen that. I understand maybe, as characters, they just didn't want "give Galen the respect or the time" but as a player all I'm left with is people not responding to me, so I'm just like "well, this is no fun."
I mean, I literally sent a letter asking Sigrún is she was Order of the Elders and she never responds. Galen literally was never of informed of her being Order of the Elders until she started talking about it after the auto de fa! And if she was insulted by Galen calling her gods false, well geez I wish she would have called him out on it! Call him a liar or a heretic or ban him from preaching in Razrpot, something!
I'm not trying to complain here or tell people they're "playing their characters wrong," just trying to explain how, on my end, I literally had nothing to go with simple because I was being ignored 90% of the time (and not just Baranian or Sigrun, either. Galen attempted to talk to lots of others, most ignore him