Zoroastrianism and Divine

[Longes]

@silveroak

@Longes

So, by that logic what matters is that you worship only one god, but you can recognise however many other gods you want? So for example priest of Odin would be divine, as he worships Odin exclusively, but his flock would be Faerie as they worship other gods?

Possibly. First of is the idea that you can't get paid twice for the same faith, so the Odinic priest would have to not be getting magical or faerie benefits. Next divine auras come from congregations, so there would need to be more than just the one priest who is worshiping Odin and Odin alone. I suspect you could venerate the other Aesir in the same way that the Catholic church venerates the saints...

...basically the closer it comes to structurally emulating Christianity (in game) the more likely it is you would be able to utilize it as a divine religion.

The argument that Christianity is a thinly disguised polytheism has been made time and time again.

[Timothy_Ferguson]

@Silberluchs

If you think handling Zoroastrianism is tricky, consider Tengriism. It's equally dualistic, but arguably also non-theistic. Yet, by all accounts, it would mainly not qualify for the "Divine" treatment because it's outside of the traditional bounds of Mythic Europe, which makes it automatically Faerie realm based. [WHich, arguably, might aslo apply to the Atenism mentioned earlier in the thread.]
At some point, you can only shrug at the rules and tell a story, rather than worry over logic. At the end of the day, as long as the players have faith in your story, it's a success. Which makes you a faerie, of course...

Atenism is specifically Divine in "Lands of the Nile". How the faerie religions managed to extinguish it is a Plot Hook.

[Jarkman]

@Silberluchs

If you think handling Zoroastrianism is tricky, consider Tengriism. It's equally dualistic, but arguably also non-theistic. Yet, by all accounts, it would mainly not qualify for the "Divine" treatment because it's outside of the traditional bounds of Mythic Europe, which makes it automatically Faerie realm based. [WHich, arguably, might aslo apply to the Atenism mentioned earlier in the thread.]
At some point, you can only shrug at the rules and tell a story, rather than worry over logic. At the end of the day, as long as the players have faith in your story, it's a success. Which makes you a faerie, of course...

Actually in TCatC I intentionally gave 4 options for the Realm alignment of the Mongols. Tengriism could be Divine IMO but YMMV.

[Berengar]

@Jarkman

Actually in TCatC I intentionally gave 4 options for the Realm alignment of the Mongols. Tengriism could be Divine IMO but YMMV.

In p.182 box Mythic Mongol Story Seeds you indeed outline rough campaign options for Infernal, Faerie and Divine Mongols, separate from the p.180ff Mundane Mongols and even the p.183f Mythic Mongols.

Also the LotN p.68 top box Luxor story seed, which in passing mentions Amarna / Akhetaten (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarna ), leaves any realm alignment of its founding Pharaoh open.

Cheers