New religious ranks, fellowship features, miracles, status, initiation, and holy items. And enhancements to some already existing religious features.

Join a religion, gain faith, pray to gods, and create miracles. Attend ceremonies held by player priests. And now more!

While it is still in development, here are as many details as I can provide at this time. All of these are subject to change, for necessary technical or play balance reasons.

Ultimately, of course, religion is what faith you, the Aisling, place into it.

Dave Kennerly
Creator of Dark Ages Religion

Screenshots
Religious Features
Glioca Mass
Cail Mass

Information
Reflections on Interactions between the Gods
The Art of the Priest
A Guide to Conducting a Religious Mass

New Ranks

Acolyte
Class: Any
Dedicated worshipper. May summon holy guardian. May receive a consecrated symbol. If a priest or wizard, may a receive a consecrated staff. Acolyte may also perform lesser desecration. Acolyte may also attempt heresy against a priest.

Cleric
Class: Priest
Devout priest who is very faithful and has initiated many worshippers. A cleric may Consecrate a Holy Symbol.

Minister
Class: Priest
Devout cleric who has initiated many worshippers. A minister may Consecrate a Holy Staff and Consecrate a Holy Symbol.

High Priest
Class: Priest
Highest priest of the religion.

New Miracles

Lesser Desecration
Remove the religious consecration of an enemy god's holy item and receive some faith.

Consecrate Holy Symbol
Consecrate a holy symbol. This symbol may only be worn by the worshipper who receives it.

Consecrate Holy Staff
Consecrate a holy staff. This staff has the symbol of the god. The staff may only be held by the worshipper who receives it.

Changes to Existing Miracles

Give Thanks
Giving thanks increases faith at least three times as much. Giving thanks is possible more than once per day, and uses labor. That is, your character prays for some amount of virtual time.

Praise Worshipper
Praising another worshipper increases the worshipper's faith more. Praising a worshipper is possible more than once per day, and uses labor.

Mass
After experiencing divine presence, worshipper is teleported to the threshold nearest to the temple. This prevents some congestion during the very large masses.

Summon Holy Guardian
A separate secret, learnable by acolytes. Not possible in temple. Not possible while shifting realms.

Desecration
Desecration is possible more than once per day, and uses labor.

Changes to Existing Elements

Banish
Banishment may be forgiven by higher priest.

Board Administration
Only the highest priest of the religion will be able to administer the board. All other priests and worshippers, and non-worshippers may write at the board, but must walk to the board to do so. Being able to write from a distance is impossible, except for a board administrator. It is a necessary technical limitation beyond my control.

Temple
Only registered characters may enter.

Ask the Mundane about 'Fellowship' and then 'Exit Temple' to quickly travel from the temple to the nearest village threshold.

Details!

Notes: Initiation requirements will be proportioned to religion's size. If a religion has 1/2 as many active members, then it will require 1/2 as many initiations for a priest to advance to cleric.

Further details will be published as soon as possible.