070, Joy (2)
Like the goddess of order and knighthood, agriculture and harvest, the goddess of love also established her own church on the main physical plane to sow the glory of faith for her.
The difference is that the first two powerful divine forces have well-organized, purposeful, and powerful churches.
The Goddess of Love does not, more precisely, the Goddess of Love does not have a unified church, and as early as eleven centuries ago, the Church of Love experienced an unprecedented great schism.
According to Talos's account of searching the magic web, at that time, a bishop named Ransendermor raised a question in an internal meeting about what love is, which is said to have originated from the confusion of a confused believer.
At the meeting, two completely different views emerged, one was that love was sincere and beautiful, unswerving, and life and death.
I forgive you for not being able to live without me, you forgive me for eternity and hope to be with you forever, nothing in the world can stop the mutual attraction and proximity of two noble hearts, because the divine power of love is omnipotent, turning things around, saving the world, and creating miracles.
Compared to the first mainstream traditional view, the second view is very deviant.
They believe that love should be free and romantic, and should not be bound by any world, public opinion or even morality, and that pleasure and sensual stimulation are the true meaning of love, regardless of gender, gender, blood, race......
As for marriage, Talos dared to say that if it weren't for the goddess of love who also held the priesthood of [marriage], the idea that "marriage is the grave of love" would have been popular a long time ago.
No one realized that it was such a simple problem that caused a dispute within the Love Church, which was very powerful on the main material plane at that time, and the dispute quickly turned into a disagreement, and the disagreement evolved into a contradiction, and as the contradiction became more and more acute, only three years later, the Love Church split into two incompatible forces.
Priests who supported the first view developed into chastity, centered on the Great Temple of the Aegean in the Kingdom of Faro, the headquarters of the Church of Love, and priests who supported the second view evolved into the Pleasure School, based on the Great Temple of Mero, located in the current Golden Empire.
For eleven centuries, the papal throne became a means of conquest between the chastity and pleasureists, and the two won and lost each other—Pope Paphos V of the Church of Love of this generation was from the Pleasureists—and never achieved unity.
Talos flashed through the basics of chastity and pleasure in his mind, and at the same time, Annistola responded.
Probably because Talos was too surprised to call out her identity just now, the bishop's voice carried a hint of complaint: "Yes, the most important twenty years of my life have been spent in the Grand Temple of Mero. ”
After a pause, she continued, "Do you regret coming here with me?"
"I'm not—"
Halfway through the explanation, Talos suddenly realizes that he doesn't seem to have the need to take responsibility for this, wasn't it Annistola who sent him an invitation?
So Naga pretended to be relaxed and changed to a relatively calm tone: "I mean...... I don't really care what other people think of the Pleasureists. ”
The hedonists had a mixed reputation since their birth, and debauchery and immorality were words that were frequently used by chastity and conservatives alike.
However, the Pleasure Faction is not without supporters, otherwise it would not be able to compete with the Chastity Guardian for a full eleven centuries, and in fact she is very popular among some nobles, adventurers, and mercenaries.
For example, masquerade balls and well-dressed sideburns parties – where masked ladies, noblewomen, young men with capital and glamorous hunters usually get drunk and indulge all night long – eight out of ten have a heal twist behind them.
For example, simply running away from the kidneys is really an effective way to relieve stress and delight the body and mind for adventurers and mercenaries who often strain their nerves and use their lives to seek wealth, and the teachings and views of the Pleasureists can save them from the condemnation of social morality or inner conscience, especially in the case of families, which can provide more spiritual comfort.
In addition to the three, another strong supporter is the bloodline warlock family, which occupies an important position among the professionals, yes, the kind of bloodline warlock family that insists on intermarriage within the family, family relations are very chaotic, twice a month family dinners (group parties), transsexuality, and incest are almost the standard.
The ideas promoted by the pleasure school make it natural for them to have children with their parents, children and nephews, and even grandparents and grandchildren.
Look, this is something that even the great goddess of love approves, so why do you criticize and discriminate against us with a strange eye?
As for saying that "the goddess has never approved of incest", isn't the pleasure pie itself the greatest proof?
If it is not recognized by the goddess, who can explain that the Pleasure faction can exist tenaciously in the main material plane for more than a thousand years, and even win the competition with the chastity faction and ascend to the papal throne.
Heresy is absolutely unable to do this, at least not to stand on the main material plane as openly as the Pleasure Sect.
The priesthood of the goddess of love [fertility] is another important reason why the bloodline warlock family supports the pleasure faction, and the result of intermarriage within the family is a high probability of deformities and various diseases, in addition to magic potions, the only thing that can effectively solve such problems is the magic of the pleasure priest.
It may sound ridiculous, but the priests of the goddess of love do have the magic of curing reproductive problems.
- Some special magic spells can also make an individual of any race become a beast in heat in a matter of seconds, and even frantically send a signal of pleasure to a pig.
Therefore, the goddess of love may not be the first faith of the bloodline warlocks, but it will certainly occupy an important place in the second faith.
Annistola was very satisfied with Talos's statement, but she didn't know if it was an illusion, and Talos noticed a special ambiguity and embarrassment in the box.
In the arena, the Leopard Girl and the Scorpion Man began to counterattack the spherical magic plant in bursts of cheers, but they were never able to attract even a single attention from Talos.
In order to get rid of this embarrassment, the four-armed Naga had to pretend to be very interested in the battle in the arena, and luckily, the spherical magic plant did give him a lot of new inspiration about the flower demon.
The Three-Eyed Octopus has undergone a new round of evolution since eating some of the fruits and branches of the Mother Tree of the Undead, and the Flower Demon brought back from the Terra Plane and tainted by the [Jealousy] cannibal flower shows no signs of further mutation for the time being.
Perhaps he could take the initiative to put some plant-type demonic beasts unique to the main material plane on that hillside, pest vines that have achieved a symbiotic relationship with poisonous flies and mosquitoes, and deathbursa with hallucinogenic effects, the planet of Sainz is so huge, there has never been a shortage of all kinds of strange magical plants.
It just so happened that as the Eastern Free Port, which gathered the world's mage elite, there were many shops selling and selling magical beasts, magical creatures, and magical plants, and he had enough time to choose slowly.
When Talos came to his senses, he realized that Annistola didn't know when she had sat on the marble shore closest to him.
Sensing his gaze, the bishop smiled and asked, "Do you know the purpose of the Nine Rings Council to convene the Third Order Council again after three centuries?"