Neutral Deities can have evil followers, presumably the good and neutral aligned ones just go with an animal sacrifice. Similar to how cow drivers would sacrifice a weak animal at a water crossing to distract certain predators.
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His priests have no set attire, but tend to wear short-legged pants and waterproofed clothing such as ponchos (which double as tents or small sails), and often go barefoot. Most are proficient fishermen. They make sacrifices to their god by drowning animals, as well as criminals—usually just the convicted, but particularly zealous and impatient worshipers are not known for being so discerning.
I don't know what you are looking at, but animals and crimanals is what I see.
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Hanspur is intended to be a deity who "rides the line close" as far as being evil. He's definately more evil than good, but he's still, for now, neutral. That does mean that he has evil worshipers, and it's those who do the drowning. In theory there would or could be an oppositional sect in his church that tends toward neutral good and opposes the evil side with a schism type thing... but that's not yet something that's happening in his faith. Yet.
(IF we wrote it as "all worshipers of Hanspur are expected to drown someone now and then as proof of faith" or something like that, then that's an error in the writing that should have been caught and corrected in development, and I apologize for that.)
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Well, that certainly clears it up. I read about The River Kingdoms and Hanspur recently in the Inner Sea World Guide and Inner Sea Gods while working on the back story for my latest PFS PC. No wonder I missed the additional detail - I didn't even know the River Kingdoms had its own book!
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For the same reason Nethys, Gozreh and aeons get away with Neutral: Non-mortals don't really follow the PC rules for alignment. ;P
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Yeah, apparently the nixed the whole "must murder someone you travel with" commandment in ISG. For obvious reasons.
Money is probably a good one; recruitment a close second. Hard to have a respectable religion if you have river priests that drown paying customers looking for a boat ride or young novices that are traveling to come join your ranks... :P
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I don't know... one of the Six River Freedoms says don't block any river or any road, and I'm guessing the presence of Hanspur followers had a big input into developing this whole regional mindframe... it's pretty Chaotic Goodish to me, as none of the River Kingdom rulers dare making roadblocks or collecting tolls, and it has made farmers into some kind of upper class in that region (again, pretty Dalelands / Chaotic Goodish approach if you ask me)
The only reason Hanspur is CN instead of CG, IMO, is because of those occasional drownings I think. And my guess is that they don't target good farmers and merchant "regulars", but just the occasional tourist jerk or a-hole. I think if you're easy going and friendly and not overly Lawful they probably leave you alone. If you're a sanctimonious Lawful type on one of Hanspur's followers' barge, sleep in shifts...
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For the same reason Nethys, Gozreh and aeons get away with Neutral: Non-mortals don't really follow the PC rules for alignment. ;PThey do the whole "good and evil, law and chaos in equal measure" form of neutrality.
A form of neutrality that is only allowed for non-mortals. With mortals, someone who burns down one orphanage and saves another is just Lawful Evil. :)
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It moved me from, "Oh, Hanspur," to "Oh! Hanspur!"