10-03-2013, 09:50 AM
Religion being "a big deal" or not is like most things in Mesalia really, your own and your character's decision.
Just like you may choose how great of an impact the slavery, war and purge have had on your character, this is just another option to add to your character if you want, eventually. Some, though probably few, have knowledge of any Mesalian culture before the slavery. The Xitians, as the Lore does state, destroyed what society and culture there was. Many slaves and descendants of slaves have instead been greatly influenced by the Xitians and Lucins and their religious believes (Rhise and Umbraie). Sometime now and then small remnants of what once was common knowledge appear even among the non-religious in the form of expressions, etc.
But this journey's been called "The Pilgrimage" for the very reason that it once was a pilgrimage, and they're now all traveling the same road, but not necessarily for the same reasons. Fact is it all begun as a quest to find a place to live for most, whether that's still truth for every character is another question.
There's never ever going to be a demand to put your character under any religion, absolutely not, it us just there as an alternative. It is something we've been lacking and now are beginning to introduce as merely another option.
As with most things then it all sums up to: it's your own choice.
Just like you may choose how great of an impact the slavery, war and purge have had on your character, this is just another option to add to your character if you want, eventually. Some, though probably few, have knowledge of any Mesalian culture before the slavery. The Xitians, as the Lore does state, destroyed what society and culture there was. Many slaves and descendants of slaves have instead been greatly influenced by the Xitians and Lucins and their religious believes (Rhise and Umbraie). Sometime now and then small remnants of what once was common knowledge appear even among the non-religious in the form of expressions, etc.
But this journey's been called "The Pilgrimage" for the very reason that it once was a pilgrimage, and they're now all traveling the same road, but not necessarily for the same reasons. Fact is it all begun as a quest to find a place to live for most, whether that's still truth for every character is another question.
There's never ever going to be a demand to put your character under any religion, absolutely not, it us just there as an alternative. It is something we've been lacking and now are beginning to introduce as merely another option.
As with most things then it all sums up to: it's your own choice.