Well, the book of names is
not going into the library! It\'s not an ordinary book, is a sacred gift, written by Laanx himself!
Also, it is there, in the temple room. The floating book is the book of names, it says so on the cover.
I think that is the list of banned names, actually, and the arcane language is MySQL.
Anyway, indeed religion has almost no followers, not even respect!
Just the other day, there was a
guild war in the temple of Laanx! Seriously, if that isn\'t bad RP, then what is?
Also, the temple is abused for all other sorts of mundane things. Not only is it the entrance to the mines and PL dungeon, it is also used to hang out. The latter may, however, be due to the utter lack of other places. You can\'t RP a semi-secret ritual in the tavern.
To me, it is clear that neither Laanx nor Talad will smite nonbelievers, for the simple fact that they never did in the entire history. Laanx may have killed a few thousand Klyros initially, but that\'s about it. Also, the history states that they impressed by their deeds or the deeds of their followers. Temples, mainly.
I am very unsure about the Black Flame, though. It is supposed to rule Pradesha, and arrived there after Laanx left. Therefore, the Yliaki cannot actually know of / believe in it.
The ones most prone to worshipping Laanx would, traditionlly, be the Xacha, as they actually owe him in a way. Naturally, the Lemurs would also qualify. Kran would of course be more of Talad worshippers.
Probably the lack of religion is a result of the lack of benefits that it would generate. Holy weapons and this sort of thing. There is no god-given power, not even in the history.
It says that Talad created the glyphs, but then again, the crystal way would be the raw power of the crystal, controlled directly, which is not the case. Also, magic is available to all, in principle. Thusly, religion would be a purely RP decision with the problem of a lack of immediately usable information. Being that, it obviously needs to share the already sparse popupation of RPers with the atheists. Therefore you will obviously find that all non-RPers are atheists out of convenience or ignorance / lack of care, and RPers...
Maybe the entire concept of RP religion is suffering from the RL mindset that is shifting away from the established religions. Even though the gods most definitely
do exist in Yliakum, they suffer from the problem that the act of actually worshipping them is made incredibly hard by the fact that there are so many well known arguments IRL that easily counter them. What remains is not faith but a sort of
deal:
I worship you and you grant me something in return. Since, however, it is very very hard to actually RP the granting of something in return, because that means taking over control of a diety, which, being part of the setting, is non player controllable, the options here are quite limited. There was / is one guild that said \"we maintained balance between the gods / their followers, and then the gods banded together to smite us\". Obviously, this is not possible. Even minor miracles aren\'t easily possible because the overall intent of the gods isn\'t really clear, i.e., you cannot easily estimate what they would do in any given situation, or if they would actually bother, given only a few individuals involved. The gods have always acted on a grand scale, which is not feasible for RP, and no examples exist for the RPable personal scope. Making things up would risk later conflicting with the setting once it is expanded, thereby possibly invalidating the entire RP. Obviously, that would be a catastrophe in the RP sense, which probably is why almost all RPers shun it.
