Religion in the Pirate Isles

Pirate Isles is potentially all over the map. But not homogenous. You should pick one that fits your PC. I personally would default to Mother Church for someone who is more or less secular or the Arcanis version of Agnostic.

Pirate Isles is potentially all over the map. But not homogenous. You should pick one that fits your PC. I personally would default to Mother Church for someone who is more or less secular or the Arcanis version of Agnostic.

Unless you enjoy drinking, partying, carousing, etc. Then it’s probably the Milandric Church for you. Kelb recently converted to Milandric

John

Okay this is one of my pet bugbears. The milandesian branch of the mother church (pre schism) was MUCH more socially conservative than their Coryani counterparts. The scroll found on behalf of Elandre have actually moved the Coryani branch closer to the practices in Milandir. On the whole, its my opinion that the coryani outlook is still more libertine.

However “tampering” in any way with illuminated scrolls gave Sabinius (aka the Fat Coryani) a pretext to gain independence … and whatever virtues Elandre has, she’s not a shrewd compromiser (and further has always seen Milandir as a backwater). As a result she fumbled any chance to keep Osric in the fold. If she had been an active part in the crusade she would have been in a position to launch a reconciliation following the deaths of Sabinius and then Osric.

I’ve heard competing opinions on this and it would be nice to get a PCI response on these. That said, based upon my character’s history (Background related to the founding of the scrolls) and the clamping down of Coryan on the excesses, Kelb converted to Milandric Church.

John

Remember a few things re: the Mother Church –

1) The Mother Church is not a unified whole, but rather a Confederation of aligned Churches which all have a ‘seat’ on the ‘church council.’ I personally view it as close to the United Nations than the United States insofar as how resolutions at the top trickle down into the specific churches.

2) Elandre’ is, ultimately, an Illiirite. Her policies are codified in the Church of Illiir, and she seems to be trying to make them carry through to the other churches. But like the debates between the likes of Hiraksu val’Ishi and Nephasser val’Mordane during the First Conclave of the Divine which led to the compromise which exists–in one way or another–to the modern day.

3) Elandre’s apparent dislike of Larissans should be fairly well known (at least at higher circles), so many would probably view her efforts in this regard as little more than her targeting those drunken hedonists.

As such, Elandre’ is clamping down on the Illiirites, and TRYING (and, from my read, failing) to clamp down on anyone else.

Remember a few things re: the Mother Church –

1) The Mother Church is not a unified whole, but rather a Confederation of aligned Churches which all have a ‘seat’ on the ‘church council.’ I personally view it as close to the United Nations than the United States insofar as how resolutions at the top trickle down into the specific churches.

2) Elandre’ is, ultimately, an Illiirite …snip snip snip …

As such, Elandre’ is clamping down on the Illiirites, and TRYING (and, from my read, failing) to clamp down on anyone else.

I agree with that. Except the Mother Church (not the Temples) controls the Inquisition and the framework that different temples work out their differences. In theory I think the MC is supposed to be the honest broker between temples. Elandre may be slowly undermining that. On the other hand I think Elandre is not just whistling in the wind and IS having a cultural impact. But you are definitely right that the sensates are not just rolling over

Interesting. After reading Henry’s statement that the pirates of the Pirate Isles are modeled off the Mediterranean pirates of late antiquity (the time of Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar), I did a quick Wikipedia search on the topic. Most enlightening. Based on what I read I see adventure possibilities and would suggest prospective mod writers do some research. I think a Pirate Isles mod or two would be quite popular with Arcaniacs.

Hello John,

The big question is have the canticles of Illir been officially integrated into Coryani Church Doctrine? The main book says ‘not yet’ but that was several years ago.

Yep – that is the question.

And until a sourcebook or adventure by me comes out with an answer, you’ll just have to keep wondering.