Amechra
2011-08-21, 07:19 PM
In my upcoming game, where all the players are peasants that start to develop bloodline abilities, I have a religion that has recently popped up.
The religion is going to venerate the PCs as "Chosen Followers of He Who Fell From Grace." The religion's name is "The Path of Broken Glass"
They follow the before named deity, who is basically someone who fell just short of Godhood. This resulted in his death; unfortunately, he had just achieved immortality before this.
So he is, in essence, locked eternally in a cycle of dying.
Now, most of the religions in my world are structured as basically worshiping a concept under the lead of a "High Priest", who is accounted as semi-divine.
The Path of Broken Glass used to be a small cult that worshiped the concept of suffering and pity until the current cult leader discovered He Who Fell From Grace.
He then warped the Path of Broken Glass to be focused more along the lines of "we have found someone who can take your suffering from you."
The cult leader (now High Priest of Broken Glass) is currently using the fact that prayer passes the devout's thoughts to the one they are praying to to warp and increase this failed deity into complete madness, so that he can strip the pseudo-deityhood from He Who Fell From Grace, thus leapfrogging into being a true deity, an act that will cause the world to reform itself around him.
The thing is that the PCs are gifted by He Who Fell From Grace, gifted in the sense that they are some of the few people that currently exist that can use ANY form of magic.
Of course, due to the fact that a deific being is going crazy, they also are getting followed by weird stuff.
So, here is what I need; I need ideas, and hopefully some homebrew creatures and events that are just plain creepy; He Who Fell From Grace was going to become a god of the downtrodden (i.e., the beggars and poor of the world), so they should be themed around that.
Please, I beg all of you, I need something that will drive home how crazy this guy has become...
The religion is going to venerate the PCs as "Chosen Followers of He Who Fell From Grace." The religion's name is "The Path of Broken Glass"
They follow the before named deity, who is basically someone who fell just short of Godhood. This resulted in his death; unfortunately, he had just achieved immortality before this.
So he is, in essence, locked eternally in a cycle of dying.
Now, most of the religions in my world are structured as basically worshiping a concept under the lead of a "High Priest", who is accounted as semi-divine.
The Path of Broken Glass used to be a small cult that worshiped the concept of suffering and pity until the current cult leader discovered He Who Fell From Grace.
He then warped the Path of Broken Glass to be focused more along the lines of "we have found someone who can take your suffering from you."
The cult leader (now High Priest of Broken Glass) is currently using the fact that prayer passes the devout's thoughts to the one they are praying to to warp and increase this failed deity into complete madness, so that he can strip the pseudo-deityhood from He Who Fell From Grace, thus leapfrogging into being a true deity, an act that will cause the world to reform itself around him.
The thing is that the PCs are gifted by He Who Fell From Grace, gifted in the sense that they are some of the few people that currently exist that can use ANY form of magic.
Of course, due to the fact that a deific being is going crazy, they also are getting followed by weird stuff.
So, here is what I need; I need ideas, and hopefully some homebrew creatures and events that are just plain creepy; He Who Fell From Grace was going to become a god of the downtrodden (i.e., the beggars and poor of the world), so they should be themed around that.
Please, I beg all of you, I need something that will drive home how crazy this guy has become...