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DAGLEA? Mistress of Justice
Syssiah:
Heya O community of fans !
I didn't find any informations in any book on Daglea, Mistress of Justice, from the Charon pantheon.
Do any of you has any clue, or maybe developed anything about this intriguing dark divinity ?
Voriig Kye:
Powers of Light and Darkness, page 111.
Beseeched by the wronged seeking justice, Daglea often deals out retribution out of proportion to her victim’s crime, and those who called upon the Dark Spirit live to regret their demand for vengeance.
There's stats, items, and all the stuff minor Charon spirits have in that book.
Syssiah:
Thanks sir Dragon !
Syssiah:
so few about this entity. A shame ! lol
MisterK:
--- Quote from: Syssiah on November 10, 2023, 11:47:41 PM ---so few about this entity. A shame ! lol
--- End quote ---
There is very little in the way of usable material for the various gods. The SWMA spends much space providing stat blocks, which are, let's be honest, borderline useless. On the other hand, the tenets of faith, the core credo of worship, the variations (organisation of various religions in different places, everyday rituals, strictures of the church, holy days and celebrations, usual clerical vestments and symbols, religious antagonisms...) are sorely lacking. Even in the Powers of Light and Darkness book, the information is scarce and often very restricted. And this is the kind of information you need to run a proper campaign in a location where there *is* a religious presence.
I would have expected, for instance, a very significant section on religion and religious practices in the Haalkitaine book, given the presence of the Unified Orhan Church (as an official state religion) and the fact that the individual cults (not to mention some non-orhanic cults) still maintain official temples in the city. But there was very little, and the Haalkitaine book actually spends more space describing what nobles wear than how religion interacts with the everyday life of people. You don't know what the major sects or factions are within the UOC, and how they interact. You don't know what the most common rituals are, what the mainstream doctrine is, what believers are expected to do, how tithes work, how the church bureaucracy works, what is done during special holy days, what the clerical hierarchy in Haalkitaine is, and so on. I understand that, for the whole world, you would have to provide only the bare bones because you can't write a thousand-pages book, but for specific environment, I would have expected more details. And this is true for all the Emer MAs as well: religion exist, but no details are provided, so you don't know how it works or how the people live with it. It's basically a hitchiker's guide to Emer: made for people who are just passing through in their quest to loot ruins and kill evildoers, but not to provide a vivid picture of what actually happens when you *live* there.
And religion is first and foremost a social construct. As such, knowing how practitioners live is the single most important point in the description (even more important that the description of the deity itself - after all, in all but the most dramatic cases, you won't ever meet the deity except through the words and deeds of the faithful).
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