Citizens and Corrupted of Verra, currently the game pushes us (though does not require us) to join a religion and worship a god, or at least pretend to, in order to get the rewards such faith grants. And while I am a man of god (Evil? Good? Who knows) there are those on the internet who are already making it clear they don’t like basically being forced to be religious. You could bypass it but then you miss out on some fun quests and rewards.
The recent video by the
Theory Forge is what got me to thinking about this, give these guys a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOUZdkRNBChLQ5pb_2iY_hw
And so why do we all worship gods who were the ones that either caused Verra to get corrupted in the first place or they were too weak to stop it! Perhaps instead of worshiping them we should be doing all we can
to rid the world of them! To block their ability to interact with the physical world of Verra!
My suggestion would be to add another NPC ran religious organization option in every city. This one would be the “Anti-Religion” group named
the Faithless Ones. Their leader would go by the name “Faithless One” (and they always wear a porcelain mask so you never know who they are whilst walking around the Market Place, and the added benefit that the "leader" can be replaced after some years and the followers would never know it since all they see is a mask and someone in thick robes.) It could be that this Anti-religious group created an army of followers in every major city that has the stated goal of removing the gods or atleast removing their ability to affect Verra. This organization just like the religions will grant you unique quest lines and rewards.
A post-launch Expansion idea at least.
