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eonaeera asked:

I'm working on a story about a combat magician, and in it, I need to create 4 unique religions that don't get along. Do you have any advice to give that could help? Thanks!

Creating a unique fictional religion is difficult, there are many bits and bobs involved when creating a concrete, finished religion for your setting, but there’s a sort of template you can follow for many of these things.

Consider: What are the main objects of worship? (e.g. deity, sacred text, sacred lands)

What morals does this religion teach, if any?

What sort of organization does this religion have, and does it have political power within your setting?

Is the religion ‘active’ in the sense that it divinely influenced recent events within the setting?

Keep thinking. What would make this religion harbor enmity for the others? Perhaps the religion is only accessible to a single ethnicity, and so xenophobia may do the rest when it comes to ‘not getting along.’

Even if religions have some things in common, small differences in belief may cause all out war between the two faiths. The theologies do not have to be fully unique, they can be four different versions of the same theology but with different views on some primary beliefs that are inherent to that theology, such as ‘who deserves to be in the sacred land’ and generally things that may be divisive in nature, no matter how small the difference is between two beliefs.

Hope that helps!

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Day 4 of my radio station internship (and Day 1 of Week 2) :

Today was an office only day, which was fine because I didn´t sleep much and would probably have snoozed away at a press conference…which would have been quite embarrassing. My teacher came to visit me, as required by internship policy - she talked to me alone, and she talked to my internship manager alone. I wonder what he told her.

So all I did today was writing news reports, getting feedback on them, and correcting them. It s always a good practice, since I found out that writing for readers and wrinting for listeners are two very very different things. (Though at one point one of the editors in chief told me my text was “absolutely like a good news report is supposed to be. Well done!” I have to admit that my ego flew to Jupiter and back for a second, hehehe.)

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These tattoos came from an initial concept of drawing and capturing all the little moments found in our habitats and ecosystems, where the artist behind this shop found that once nature was allowed to thrive and grow unfettered, and left to its own devices and serve its purpose- true beauty could be realised. Intrigued by the tones, shapes, patterns, and structure of every element at hand, she represents them in her work as realistically as she is able to achieve. The technical processes see a digital transfer from paper to temporary ink, where the tattoos reflect the ephemeral quality of nature- all things must blossom and perish to make way for new creation in the cycle of life. Find them in their Etsy shop.

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