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tearlessrain · 2 years ago

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okay the way gods/the afterlife are handled in forgotten realms lore is bleak as fuck. like. the mortal realm basically being a prayer-powered generator and source of fodder for the gods to throw at each other in their constant conflicts and if you don't like that and refuse to participate, fuck you you're Going In The Wall. they may or may not be interested in helping you but you're still gonna have to pick one to grovel at if you don't want to spend your afterlife getting Pink Floyd-ed into oblivion and/or shanghaid into being a demon.

like. what the fuck. this is a dystopia and even dying won't get you out of it.

#the wall thing has always bothered me idk #granted a lot of this is due to the fact that I happen to really like making godless characters/characters who have beef with the gods #because I have the usual combination of religious trauma and daddy issues one might expect of a queer millennial #so being cornered into worshiping a deity no matter how you might feel about getting involved in the gods' constant bullshit #under threat of Wall Time Forever Because Fuck You #just inspires a kind of suffocating hopelessness to me #don't take this seriously I am talking out of my ass #I know the gods need prayer to survive and all that but like #considering they keep everything running I feel like that alone should be enough incentive for them to retain plenty of worshippers??#I just feel like the alignment afterlife being such a threat to them only works in a universe #where either the existence of the gods is ambiguous or the universe can function fine without them #as things are there are still a lot of reasons why *most* people would revere the gods anyway #I just think you can afford to let a few of em off #also if there are enough to make a city wall out of them then the wall obviously isn't working as a motivator anyway #there's no reason to keep it up at this point other than being petty assholes

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