fastideo wrote:
This is also raises the question, do the players want to gain the avatar's power? If they are opposed to the views of the avatar, there could be ramifications for the players if they do what the avatar wants
If there are any clerics that come through, they especially would not be interested in helping a rival power. I would imagine they would (or at least should!) be more interested in spreading the word of their own religion. The way that I would see it is if they don't, and their own deity can still contact them/grant them spells, thhey could be in for a rude shock.
Hmm. Well I know that all the characters I've recieved information on so far would go along with it. However, clerics, as you mentioned, would be quite the problem.
Granted, there's one primary religion in Rithe which centres around three gods, and this is an avatar of those three. However, I certainly don't want to be railroading any cleric into choosing this said religion, or just ending up with "HAH! Your god doesn't exist, but this one does".
I'll have to think on this one, but unlike core and similar supplements, the dieties in my campaign don't play such a (comparitively) hugely active role in the world. They made the worlds, threw some of their things in here and there (like the avatar), and now mostly retire to watching, while their divine energies continue to grant clerics their spells.
For this reason, they don't just instantly shut down and replace the avatar when she borders on inciting war.
This distancing between the avatar and divinity could work out quite well, for example, the clerics, paladins, and other people for whom it would matter don't necessarily have know that the avatar is an avatar at all, they could merely understand it to be some long-lost arcane force, and perhaps intend to use it to create a thousand temples for their religion across the land.
Edit: In the event of alignment detection, she's true neutral, swinging somewhat towards chaos, methinks, so that wouldn't be much of an issue.
In the event of divination determining her true nature (something I'd rather not fudge information on, as divination is already extremely rarely used as is), the character in question may now seek to destroy the avatar.