Masronyx
Minstrel
What is the best way to document a religion in your fantasy world? This is the one thing I seem to have trouble with. Mainly because religion can be the basis for strife, wars, and the main conflict in a story. Religion is also a way to control the population with fear and devotion.
The best way I can describe my difficulty is trying to build each individual religion, especially if there is more than one culture in the story line. It's easy to look at the religious conflicts today and in history, but where do you begin? Where do you begin and how do you keep them separate? Does this go along with the creation of a people/tribe? Do you build the people first, THEN the religion or vice-verse?
Here is the best way I can describe my predicament: A monastery holds power over a people, based on a Sandman-like god. Over the years, the religion has become corrupt so much that the high priest controls the dreams of the populace, those "unclean" are found via their dreams.
These peoples are descendants from a group that left their homeland because of religious prejudice. I am stuck on the religion of the homeland and on trying to build the religion of the people and the aborigines who live around the people.
Should I do some research on religions, or is there a system so to speak? I'd really appreciate some input.
The best way I can describe my difficulty is trying to build each individual religion, especially if there is more than one culture in the story line. It's easy to look at the religious conflicts today and in history, but where do you begin? Where do you begin and how do you keep them separate? Does this go along with the creation of a people/tribe? Do you build the people first, THEN the religion or vice-verse?
Here is the best way I can describe my predicament: A monastery holds power over a people, based on a Sandman-like god. Over the years, the religion has become corrupt so much that the high priest controls the dreams of the populace, those "unclean" are found via their dreams.
These peoples are descendants from a group that left their homeland because of religious prejudice. I am stuck on the religion of the homeland and on trying to build the religion of the people and the aborigines who live around the people.
Should I do some research on religions, or is there a system so to speak? I'd really appreciate some input.