We do got our boy Ranald...
I started laying out an argument for why he could pretend to be us as a saint as a proactive business strategy (we'd be
his saint, ergo, glorifying our identity only makes him cooler, and considering how incredibly loyal to him we are and how risky our lifestyle is it's one that's bound to pay off and become true sooner rather than later), but the issue I ran into is that us still being alive would be kind of awkward.
Consider, everybody knows we're the Dammerlichtreiter. Nobody really thinks about it, but we're still a person running around and doing things, and the Mathilde who talks to people and the Mathilde that people would be worshiping would inevitably start to overlap.
"So... mind explaining why all these peasants in Stirland are praying to you?"
*They watch a Stirland peasant pray to Mathilde, shake a magic censor, and make smoke that makes undead go away come out. Ranald catches the prayer and sticks it in a piggy bank*
*They turn around, but Mathilde has absconded through a window. Their snack tray is empty*
If we loaded up the temples with enough magic items I bet we could offload most of the actual miracle-expenditures he'd need to do (like the Dammerlichtreiter Thuribles protecting towns from the undead), but the more successful our ruse gets the more awkward it might be. Being an object of worship means intentionally trying to get the Knowledge(Religion) check DCs on us as low as possible, which means anybody with ears will be aware of interesting tidbits such as us serving Ranald, like, as in we're on speaking terms with him. It's hard to be an object of worship when you're also buying beer at the market, or people are having to contemplate the pro's and con's of going into business against somebody worshiped as a servant of the divine.
[X] A Scenic Hike
no, you do not bring the agnostic to a place of worship on the first date.
That just screams "You are gonna have to change yourself for me" to anyone looking.
I think the issue is that we're not going to change that aspect of ourself for her. It's best to get it out of the way now, before we spend a year in a relationship with her without addressing it, because if she's staying away from the Jade Order because they're really intense about play-acting religious occurrences she really might not be comfortable living around somebody who does the things other people make ceremonies to commemorate.
