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It's good to have a team on your side, and Salim Ghadafar is going to have to recruit the best to assist him in a mystery that takes him and his allies to the planes! In Pathfinder Tales: The Redemption Engine, the atheist soldier serving the goddess of the dead is dispatched to find out why condemned souls are not arriving to their appointed place in the afterlife. Heading towards Kaer Maga, the City of Strangers, Salim enlists the aid of otherworldly creatures, the fast-talking scamp Gav, and agents of the Iridian Fold to find lost souls. But these souls do not belong to those that died nobly, serving a cause greater than themselves--murder just one of the sins they committed. Angels and devils both want the problem solved, but who to trust when both sides are trying to gain the upper hand, and mortal souls caught in the middle?

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Curious… how can the protagonist be an atheist if he serves the goddess of the dead???? How can he not believe that deities are real???

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TwiceBorn wrote:
Curious… how can the protagonist be an atheist if he serves the goddess of the dead???? How can he not believe that deities are real???

Atheists in Golarion do not follow a deity, but they still know they exist.

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TwiceBorn wrote:
Curious… how can the protagonist be an atheist if he serves the goddess of the dead???? How can he not believe that deities are real???

Read Death's Heretic :)

But what Rysky said is right. He doesn't worship them as gods, but he obviously knows Pharasma is meting out judgement in the Boneyard.

Cheers!
Landon


I think atheist is a poor word substitute. Maybe faithless would be better.


LurkingTyranny wrote:
I think atheist is a poor word substitute. Maybe faithless would be better.

I'd go with irreverent, personally. In the sense that they refuse/fail to revere the gods. I mean, some of those gods are just men and women who got extra-special powerful by rubbing up against a stone of some sort. And really, if there's something divinely worthy of worship about being a god, then should one worship them all? By corollary, if any of them isn't deserving of veneration, that supports the idea that none of them are.

Just a view into the head of a skeptic.


Agreed. An Aethiest in Golarion would be like someone who rejected the concept of gravity on Earth.

I don't know what the correct term is. There may not be one. So invent one :)

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It turns out, the best term is probably "alatrist," but nobody knows what that means (I certainly didn't until a few weeks ago), so we went with "atheist" so people would get the drift.

If it helps, think of "Rahadoumi atheism" as an in-world name for the belief system, as assigned by non-Rahadoumi who don't fully understand the philosophy. After all, our own world is full of misnomers. :)

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