[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
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[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
[X] Support Inzha's proposal. It will require more administrative infrastructure, but it pairs well with your own thoughts. It is also limited enough that it should not hurt your position more. It holds more potential for conflicts down the row though. (+1 WS favorability, -1 PT Favorability. Does not hamper foreign Quarter goals. Theological border clashes more likely in the future.)
Seems a bit like the last option but on a case by case basis.
Seems a bit like the last option but on a case by case basis.
- Location
- Germany
[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
PowerLeca
Rapidly aging
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
This vote had me going back to reread the chapters on the WS gods (turn 11, 6.6 for anyone interested) and I found a neat summary
Interestingly I never thought of LQ as someone with faith-based cultivation but from a WS perspective it's probably seen similarly? Her "faith" to various Moon aspects blesses her with abilities and perhaps learning more about the WS gods and showing favour can open new pathways for growth.
[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
I'd love to hear more directly from the priests about the various gods/spirits.
Interestingly I never thought of LQ as someone with faith-based cultivation but from a WS perspective it's probably seen similarly? Her "faith" to various Moon aspects blesses her with abilities and perhaps learning more about the WS gods and showing favour can open new pathways for growth.
[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
I'd love to hear more directly from the priests about the various gods/spirits.
[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
- Location
- Canada
[ ] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
Usually I'm pretty split on at least two options. This time though this seems the obvious play.
Usually I'm pretty split on at least two options. This time though this seems the obvious play.
NaanContributor
Provider of delicious flatbread, and nothing else.
- Location
- Hawaii
Missing your X.
[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
Her gender isn't the problem, her attitude is
We don't know a lot about the Celestial Dragon directly, but she raised Qin and he was very much the sort of rapacious conquerer the Polar people hate and fear
- Location
- California
[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[x] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
- Pronouns
- He
[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
If I try to divine in-story reasons for why the White Sky is so concerned about having shrines for their own spiritual ecosystems in their sections, I suspect that one reason is they want to ensure that their males keep to their own system. When we asked for a story from Grydja in Turn 16: Arc 2-6 she flagged that Imperial modes of domination and power politics mirrored the actions of the Iron King, and Turn 11: Arc 6-5 and the preference for the use of female soldiers seems to imply that males are distrusted due to their vulnerability to the Outer Night. I'm open to the consideration that I am overleveraging Inzha's use of 'men', or that to the White Sky it's difficult to imagine any embassy without a temple to Sudica, patron of Emissaries.
TimEd
Meteor maker
[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
Ling Qi actually has a key piece of knowledge that might help her arguments here: the gods (at least the highest of them) wear different identities in different cultures. So there's probably already some backend crossover between the two pantheons
- Location
- Colorado
[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
ElizatronicWarfa
Himejoshi Supreme
- Pronouns
- She/They
[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
- Location
- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)
- Location
- Third planet from the star named Sol
- Pronouns
- He/They
[X] Attempt your own proposal, let both parties discuss and petition their patrons for which spirits or gods would be most suitable to divine diplomacy, and let only these select few receive major dedications within shared spaces. (+1 ES and WS Favorability, -2 PT favorability. Ensures short term turbulence and theological debate, may allow greater stability. Supports foreign Quarter goals.)