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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Torath View Post
    Problem with "Fane" is that it already means "temple or shrine." TSR adventure D3 had the Great Fane of Lolth, which was a temple. I kind of like Selerate.
    I don't see this as a big deal. Words can have multiple meanings - "temple" for instance also means "flat part of the side of one's head."

    Even when "fane" means temple, it's typically used to connote "evil temple" specifically.

    Quote Originally Posted by Mastikator View Post
    Why shouldn't an evil saint just be called a saint? What makes a saint a saint isn't that they're good, it's that they're pious and perform miracles. If you serve an evil god then being pious is evil.
    Because saint has become associated with good by connotation. Yes, you can technically have evil saints, or evil religions that consider themselves holy and the good religions unholy, but in a gaming context you'll almost never see those usages applied that way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    But really, the important lesson here is this: Rather than making assumptions that don't fit with the text and then complaining about the text being wrong, why not just choose different assumptions that DO fit with the text?
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