Editing Arcana Unearthed (section)

=Good, Bad...=
[[Alignment]]s are NOT part of this text. Look at you, "with us or against us". What are you, some kind of George W Bush voter?! (These books were a Product Of Their Time, as the saying goes.)

Errr... alignment is ''sort of'' not part of AU. Good and evil couldn't quite be glided over.

At the very least it contrasts the Green, which is life (and death!); and the Dark fueling ''un''life. The moment you allow undead into a campaign-world, you've dragged all the living into a coalition against it, willing or not. We actually own a snapshot into how this happened to Monte in his "Between Life and Death", reviewed over in the [[Diamond Throne]] article. And then there are, rather were, the dramojh.

==Excuse me, would you like to discuss our Lord and Savior?==
We mentioned above, no clerics as such. This may be worth a Discussion.

Giants and litorians are atheists, verrik hope to ascend to godhood, and faen are basically animists who think up gods on the spot. Humans have organised religion - but for the most part, that's a past-tense ''had''. Half this demographic are atheist and most of the rest can be classified as "spiritual". Maybe getting thoroughly boned by two alien races in succession might have something to do with that . . .

To be noted, Serran conjoins at least one ''hell'', Kaleknos; and ''[[Beyond Countless Doorways]]'' is coming to retcon and describe another(?) one, Kin-Li'in. (Also an Earth elemental plane, Deluer.) Infidels on Serran, who we repeat make the majority, hold that such terrible abodes are mere conjunct worlds like - well, like Deluer; they are not an afterlife. They say the same of heaven although, there is much less evidence here for that. The main philosophic dissent comes from the cult of Rallonoch who assure their faithful that their chrism is effective to, we suppose, grease the locks to [the only] Heaven's gate.

Most Serranese, correctly interpreting "heaven" and "hell" as supernatural to Serran, deduce that these effect the Green and the Dark in this world. Such people skip right past theology and go with local [[druid]] analogues instead.

Ergo: no real clerics. Unless and until [[Tracy Hickman]] runs a campaign here, which [[Book_of_Vile_Darkness|he won't]]. Or until someone traipses across the Monteverse to find one or more of the (many) planes which ''do'' host clerics, and reports back...