Seven Sons of Sin wrote: ↑Sat Jul 21, 2018 8:04 pm
While I enjoy this take on it, I have problems with the logic. A character that espouses the above is evidently a learned one, so wouldn't they know about the Wall of Faithless? The very real and tangible purgatory where you dissolve into nothingness?
It seems hard to reconcile a belief that the gods aren't gods because of their occasional mortality with the absolute and unequivocal power has on the direction of your "afterlife."
Willful atheism sounds like willful idiocy. I don't want to bash on the concept, because I find FR theology a convoluted and intricate mess of cool questions and debates (and the epicentre of basically every conflict). However, the omnipresence of divinity is really hard to dispute or question.
A wild TRM appears, and uses Swift Attack.
The Rambling Midget wrote: ↑Sat Jul 21, 2018 8:04 pm
There once was a character played as faithless, and he did it very well. His opposition to them was out of spite for their control over mortals and the consistent, blatant misuse of their influence. His answer to the wall was to attempt to find a way to have his soul annihilated when he died, so he wouldn't have to suffer that fate.
It was clearly a difficult concept to play properly, though, and should be extremely rare.
This is very similar to what I had in mind- to me, the ultimate goal of the character (whether achievable or not) is some RP-dependent variation of-
1: Become the 'god' of death in order to destroy the wall. <--- Not very likely. Even event plot shenanigans probably won't go this far.
2: Rob the god of death of his power somehow, destroy the wall while he's weakened using the stolen power. <--- Mildly more achievable, as it's able to be 'reacted to' and 'fixed.'
3: Screw all the gods, convince others of your train of thought, then launch a crusade to destroy the wall. (So far there have actually been three, already). <--- Like two, fixable, and can be reacted to.
The main idea here is that the Wall itself is a point of righteous fury for said character concept. It is basically a tool the gods use to punish people who don't give them power, as either being absorbed into a wall, or taken by a demon. And demons don't launch constant attacks on godly domains because of that. They keep their shenanigans to the Prime instead.
Now, as for willful atheism in this case being willful idiocy- I will certainly agree it is swimming upstream rather than downstream.