Charas-Project
Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: DedlellyDeth on June 03, 2009, 11:27:36 PM
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Hey, guys. I'm working on a fictional religion. Tell me if you have any ideas.
The religion revolves around two key entities: The Sun and The Moon. The Sun is the natural enemy in the desert, and is an evil giant that harms the people. All fire and heat is descended from the Sun. The Moon is his counterpart, a loving being that brings health. All water and cold is descended from the Moon, which is thought to be made of water, as the Sun is made from fire. The darkening of the Moon with the lunar cycles is thought to be the draining of its water unto the Earth, as they correlate with the flow of the rivers.
The people believe that the sky is a vast blackness dotted with drops of water, the children of the lunar mother, vanquished in daytime by the Sun. This sky suspends three eternal entities, the spheres Earth, Sun, and Moon.
They believe that all animals (including humans) are made from the substance of animal, and all plants from the substance of plant, becoming common earth as they die, as they were eons ago. Winds represent life and change, as a separation of organic substances from inorganic ones with breath, perhaps carry the thoughts of the ancestors.
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People in this land were heavily segregated based on skin color, the darker representing the lower castes and the lighter the higher.
The people tended to be nocturnal, avoiding the rage of Sol in the desert, and thus grew to have nocturnal traits such as large eyes.
It was considered foolish to cut or clean one's hair, because it was believed that the hair represented one's age and wisdom, both because of the length and the sand accumulated in it being the knowledge of the ancestors, as the hair was believed to be connected directly to the brain.
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Wall of text.
Give structure and something to follow and I'll read.
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1st legit post (round of applause)
That's pretty good. I'd have to say it's better than anything I came up with . I had a fictional religion in my game centerd around 4 beings of elemental origin. kinda like the way the tri-force worked, but with an added element.
what is this fictional religion for?
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Yepp, much better now.
And it sounds pretty good I must say.
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Wall of text.
Give structure and something to follow and I'll read.
**** like this makes me wonder about people.
"Durrr, I'm so important and well refined, that I refuse to read something because it doesn't appeal to my eyes, and then I must announce to the person with sole intent on harming their feelings and making them look stupid to their peers."
Grow up man.
Also, the stars should represent something, you know, like in Greek and Roman mythos had stories behind each constellation. Stars seem like they have a lot of cool potential.
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Fictional religion.
try to avoid redundancy /cheapshot
Yeah sounds pretty good so far. Interesting that the sun is represented as an evil entity, I like.
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Hmm, I'll think about the stars thing.
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**** like this makes me wonder about people.
"Durrr, I'm so important and well refined, that I refuse to read something because it doesn't appeal to my eyes, and then I must announce to the person with sole intent on harming their feelings and making them look stupid to their peers."
Grow up man.
You didn't see the original post did you? It was a mess.
The edited version is much better as said earlier.
Get your facts straight before you accuse me of anything.
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Don't take it too seriously, it's Apex after all.
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try to avoid redundancy /cheapshot
Yeah sounds pretty good so far. Interesting that the sun is represented as an evil entity, I like.
Aye, too many people try to go for the dark = evil/light = good angle. It's different.
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They should call the moon Lunos.
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The Sun is the natural enemy is the desert, and is an evil giant that harms the people.
Stopped reading here.
Also continued to read after that point.
But what?
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Aye, too many people try to go for the dark = evil/light = good angle. It's different.
One of the biggest things I hate is the usage of darkness being evil and light being always good. So I don't follow tradition. That tradition sucks and is too predictable. Thus I give props for breaking tradition.
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Needs more sinful stuff.
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Sinful stuff? Hmm... Morals are rather important to a religion, so I'll think about that.
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You can't make a religion focused on sin. It's a God damned oxymoron. Here's an idea: Give it what no real religion has - proof of the power of its superior deity. Don't focus on natural objects like solar bodies, find something more involved to represent the people's faith. I would even go so far as to have the idea of Greek Gods being recycled. Perhaps a variation on the idea of an Illuminati. Yeah, a single world rule organization based about the heads. These people have something supernatural surrounding them, and they've existed for as long as anyone can remember (neato twist behind the religion could be that none of these all-powerful leaders has any true supernatural abilities. Like, they're secretly replaced to keep the illusion going). Or you can try to combine these ideas together somehow.
Plenty to work with right there.
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Hmm, interesting. Similar to the Pharaohs reverence as gods?
Take note, though, that this isn't intended as a religion highly linked with a fictional work, so I think I would have to go with a more traditional approach. I'm sorry.
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Both Sun and Moon create a champion of their own from themselves to try and control/guide the populace....
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Both Sun and Moon create a champion of their own from themselves to try and control/guide the populace....
They people think that albinos are the chosen ones from the moon.
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Wouldn't the whole sun/moon thing cause them to discriminate harshly with skin colours? That would be interesting. The darker a person's skin (melanin), the more aligned they are with the Sun, thus the more 'evil' they are. Same thing the other way around, the lighter a person's skin, the less contact they have with the Sun, making them less 'evil'.
So, like Prpl said, an albino would be revered.
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Hmm... sounds good, Prpl and Uber. When the time comes I will update this thread with new information.
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You can't make a religion focused on sin. It's a God damned oxymoron. Here's an idea: Give it what no real religion has - proof of the power of its superior deity. Don't focus on natural objects like solar bodies, find something more involved to represent the people's faith. I would even go so far as to have the idea of Greek Gods being recycled. Perhaps a variation on the idea of an Illuminati. Yeah, a single world rule organization based about the heads. These people have something supernatural surrounding them, and they've existed for as long as anyone can remember (neato twist behind the religion could be that none of these all-powerful leaders has any true supernatural abilities. Like, they're secretly replaced to keep the illusion going). Or you can try to combine these ideas together somehow.
Plenty to work with right there.
You just defined the Myrdian religions
The Gods in Myrdia live in a giant crystalline labyrinth on the moon, which is actually visible from the planet
They also come over to the planet every now and then to instill their followers with hope/fear.
Anyways, about your religion...sounds interesting
And, since the sun is evil, would they flee it?
Like become nocturnal?
Sounds logical to me
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They could end up like vampires or something like that. This is getting pretty awesome right here.
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Vampires? Awesome? Aren't those like... you know... antonyms?
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Vampires? Awesome? Aren't those like... you know... antonyms?
Only when Stephanie Meyer gets a hold of them
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Well, true, but vampires have become a big-time cliche (along with giant shark/alligator, please for the love of GOD, no more damn giant alligator/shark/snake/spider movies!!! It doesn't get better! It's boring the HELL out of me!). Now they are making them sparkly... how worse can the vampire movies/stories get.
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Forget I asked that.
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They're not cliche when you use them effectively, and uniquely
The whole "it's a virus/curse thing, and now they're evil" thing is getting way overused, agreed
The whole "THERE PPL 2!!11!1" thing is just retarded, especially when they look like they were playing with sequins
This isn't about vampires though, it's about a religion
About the vampires, it could work, but then you'd have to work quite a bit to make yourself pop out with this
Might I ask what you are using this religion for?
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Just as a recreational literary project.
By vampires I mean like Gollum. It's hard to explain.
Also see my first post for new content.
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Just as a recreational literary project.
By vampires I mean like Gollum. It's hard to explain.
Also see my first post for new content.
We hhhhate him! We hhhate the yellow face in the sssskyyyy.
That kind of stuff?
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One of my old games had a race of gollum-like pale, bug-eyed people who lived in caves under a desert.
COINCIDENTS?
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Needs moar exiles.