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silverwolfer
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Posted - 29 Jun 2013 :  02:32:47  Show Profile Send silverwolfer a Private Message  Reply with Quote  Delete Topic
What is the difference as far as duties and powers, between a druid of some nature god, and a cleric of such.

Kentinal
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Posted - 29 Jun 2013 :  05:40:10  Show Profile Send Kentinal a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Well only that occurs to me at first is a cleric of nature does not need to join the Driud order, that they in fact are more involved with nature spirits.

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Markustay
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Posted - 29 Jun 2013 :  14:19:27  Show Profile Send Markustay a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I would think that a cleric would be more concerned with the people aspect of nature (them worshiping/protecting/respecting it), and Druids are more concerned with nature itself, and don't bother much with people. However I've seen examples of 'social' Druids as well.

I've personally never understood why we have both, except maybe that Druids are more 'countrified' (they stick to very rural areas). Clerics tend to work with farmers, ranchers, etc. But its more then just a regional thing - Druids are part of nature, while Nature clerics stand aside it.

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Edited by - Markustay on 29 Jun 2013 14:19:43
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Aldrick
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We know for Chauntea at least, there is a conflict between the Druids and the Clerics.

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Members of the Great Mother's clergy divide themselves into two factions of roughly equal size. Those clerics who minister to farmers and agricultural workers in cities, towns, and villages refer to themselves as Pastorals, while those in the wilder, older sect that caters to the wilderness call themselves, with a touch of arrogance, the True Shapers. Members of both sects recognize no central authority - theirs is a highly individualistic faith. Chauntea sets out a doctrine outlining a general sect of values and taboos, but how each cleric adapts this code for herself and her flock is largely a matter of personal interpretation.

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They preach a respect for the natural world and emphasize programs of replanting, careful irrigation, and crop rotation to ensure that the earth is not despoiled.

Militant druids of Silvanus scoff at these lessons, however, claiming that the very act of agriculture is an affront to nature. It allows more people to live in a given area than can be sustained in the long term, and hence fosters overpopulation and environmental destruction, despite the best intentions of the Pastorals. They assert that over time, Chauntean agriculture, with its diverted waterflow, drained wetlands, and emphasis in supporting cities, will do irreparable damage to the natural balance. The Pastorals discount them, but such reaction screeds have caused a great deal of turmoil among the True Shapers (most of whom are themselves druids). Numbers of the more primal Chaunteans have become Silvanites in the last century, leading to a cooling of relations between even the more moderate members of both clergies.
- Faiths and Pantheons, pg. 18

This gives some insight, I think, into some of the conflicts that brew under the surface between druids and clerics, as well as the different views on how the balance, nature, and civilization is best served.

Edited by - Aldrick on 29 Jun 2013 15:57:59
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