Rest In Pieces

Piety [Character 7.04]

Your story

You are Piety. You believe that there is an unseen, immaterial world that co-exists with the world of physics. That world has a God or gods as well as spirits, human and otherwise, and is vast and beautiful beyond comprehension. You believe that everyone is connected to that invisible world and; that this connection is what gives people a sense of shared sapience; and that this forms the fundamental basis for moral law. Even science recognizes that there are and will always be fundamental limits to what is knowable. [Note to player: you may adopt whatever specific beliefs you wish]

The spiritual path has been a difficult one to tread. The overwhelming number of people are materialists, believing in only what senses and instruments can detect, and are closed-minded about other possibilities. Their skepticism and sometimes outright hostility was often hard to take. You would get depressed, wondering if your efforts were having any effect at all; or angry that others were so obdurate. Harmony showed you old records of scripture from a number of faith traditions that made you realize that your situation, a "voice crying out in the wilderness" as one source put it, was a common one, and that many transformations in spirituality had come about from very modest beginnings. They gave you the ability to carry on with a good heart.

The Seekers include:

• Courage: You like their energy and enthusiasm. You wish they would challenge the conventions of materialism as much as they challenge everything else.

• Honor: Their principles and yours have a lot in common. The critical difference is that you feel that we all have a duty to the one(s) who created us that is the root of all other duties. People are not the only nor best source for law and justice.

• Wisdom: Sigh. They are in many ways the archetype of rationality, exalting logic over all else. Could you ever get them to even consider that they might be wrong?

• Piety: You. The connection between the Seekers and the divine. You can't let them forget that there is something greater than all of us.

• Love: Kindness and compassion are cardinal virtues. You appreciate that deeply. But Love seems too often to be a creature of the moment, of pleasure and sensory fulfilment.

• Harmony: Your guide and friend in a world that largely rejects you. You were headed down a path of anger and self-pity, and they showed you how others had found the strength to persevere and find meaning, that the mountains you saw all around could be climbed. Without them, you might be lost again, or angry at the world for not trying to understand.

Some ideas for memory scenes:

• An encounter with Harmony, perhaps when they helped you see that your path was valid.
• When your faith helped someone else with a problem.