Faith in Correllendor

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Religion in Correllendor Correll religion, first and foremost, has no direct and straightforward deities. Instead, the Correll respect Aspects of humanity directly: Justice, Love, War, Leadership, Music, Perception, Deceit, and the Body, among many others. The list is actually fairly fuzzy and dynamic when it comes to any particular Aspect... as fuzzy as any two people's definitions of those words would be. The idea behind this is that by focusing (through meditation, work, art, whatever) on the Aspect you need, you can come to embody that Aspect (or virtue). People adhere to Aspects as they need, much as believers in a pantheon might supplicate to various deities for various purposes in their life. The closest that the Correll come to dieties are mythical and historic figures, called Avatars, that have particularly embodied Aspects. This veneration and interaction is more a voo-doo sort of possession/embodiment/channeling than the worship of a particular, distant figurehead that rains gifts or punishment upon humanity. By focusing on being like that figure, the idea is that you can achieve their excellence with regards to that Aspect. And no, not everyone holds this same belief homogenously. There's a sect or subculture that does champion a single supernatural being from which all existence emanates. There's a sect that looks to dreams as more real than the physical world, or as a realm of pure spirit, where reality is directly manipulable to the mind. And, in point of fact, if you're dead-set on having a particular deity, feel free; after all, Correllendor is not the only region in this world, and you could come from somewhere else, or from a subculture. We can figure out any number of cool places for your character to have come from. How does this work in the D&D system? See, there's spirit and there's magic, which map pretty directly onto Divine and Arcane magic, respectively. Priests still have Domains, they just don't necessarily have deities for those domains. Divine magic doesn't come from deities, but from within, a sort of bursting-forth of human essence, channeled through the priest. Very Force-like. Arcane magic, on the other hand, manipulates more explicitly Force-like energy from the world around the character.

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