Oh definitely. Even if the Lake religion weren't a problem, I'd still say do it. I've been promoting for multiple turns now that their unique level of syncretic belief would do wonders in helping create and maintain a unified identity across our empire even as we take in more people through various means.
That's why I prefaced with
since I am hoping their relationship is not one of worship or a cult. We don't know what their religious situation is like. Right now all we know is that they admire her. That is also why I mentioned this
since that is possible as well.
Not really. Neighponese immigrants would grant him weight, but I've mentioned before that any spreading of the Neighponese beliefs beyond the very first action would be in a syncretic form, which is also what was mentioned WAY back when this all first started and you guys consistently voted to not follow up on. A Luna or Nightmare (not that Nightmare Moon exists yet) worship would be equivalent to the Imperial Cult. Generalized spiritualism would not.
I edited in a bit that you didn't see since I finished it around the same time you posted.
Syncretism inherently means they'd take things from their own environment. In Neighpon, Celestial Dragons are the rulers and administrators of nature spirits. In the Empire where there are no such Celestial Dragons, they'd draw inspiration from the Griffon gods, or the forests of the frontier, or the Crystal Heart, or any other such number of things. The whole point of animistic beliefs is that they are non-centralized and have no actual inherent beliefs to them beyond a general respect for spirits. Literally every RL animistic religion changes to match one's own environment as well, and the description given for the spiritualism said about as much would take place here. You are giving Neighponese spiritualism far too much structure than it actually has.
The interpretation of what we've been told of Neighponese spiritualism as I've been running with is that introducing it syncretically would be making it a cultural aspect, rather than a purely religious aspect. Much in the same way new converts to one religion still respect the older religion's deities or practices because religion and culture are intertwined, so too would this spiritualistic aspect merge into the pre-existing belief system. This means Neighponese immigrants and their descendants would likely form a Gryphonian branch of the same beliefs that exist in Neighpon, but native believers of spiritualism would more adapt spiritualism around what they already believe and create a mixed religion.
You really think there isn't going to be a massive taboo to using anything related to Sombra? Especially his mindcontrol helmets.
Even then, I think you underestimate the scope of the problem. Pretty much every single magic user barring Merlin is a Crystal pony survivor, child of a crystal pony, or a refugee from Maretonian slavery and civil war... who the hell in our Empire will want to even touch the helmet to begin researching it?
I am in awe that you think mind magitech chips surgically inserted into a creature's brain are in any way more palatable to the traumatized magic users we would be asking to develop this.
I'm sorry for reading into it, but I don't know what else I was supposed to take away from "helmets are obvious and clunky" and "install a version" in your post other than some kind of brain chip. It seems like the obvious conclusion to come to.
Yeah we have neglected that one for too long.
