Not quite, in fact it's the opposite of what happened. Clerics of Bane in Ravenloft continued to receive spells even after Bane died on Toril. During the Grand Conjunction, when Ravenloft briefly merged with the Prime Material Plane, Ravenloft's Banites lost the ability to cast their spells, and only regained them when the Grand Conjunction ended.
:arrow: The Lawgiver is.. kinda Bane - or at least he was. I think what they tried to represent in the game was the real connection Bane had to the world - he used to ACTUALLY give his power out, it wasn't interfered with due to the Unspoken pact.. but when he died on Faerun, they didn't get their powers anymore the DPs had to step in as surrogates. (Also probably causing the rumor that the Lawgiver died either from Outlander priests of Bane.) Banites from other settings will probably be branded apostates/heretics. Especially since they don't speak Vaasi, and they call him by what I assume would now be a forbidden name.
Oh. So would the part about doctrinal differences between RL Banites and the "others"? I went along the lines of no Vaasi, no lovin'. (Basically, adapt and submit to RL values? They kind of remind of the Catholic Church in the middle ages where they were not allowed to preach in Vulgar languages and had to use Latin.)I think it would be similar to the Protestant/Catholic clashes in Europe during the 1400s-1600s. They have a lot in common, but they'd focus on the tiny differences and would call each other heretics over those small differences.
Also on a slightly unrelated note:I believe that was the intention of the Gazetteer authors, yes, but we found that to be extremely problematic, with everyone claiming they could speak Vaasi, or that Vaasi was Ravenloft's common tongue (it's not). So we've gone with the "universal Common" prevalent in 2nd edition books (explained as spreading by planar and space travel). It think it's easier to say that the Vaasi language evolved out of some Faerunian tongue, although what language all the disparate lands the darklords hail from have in common is beyond me (Hazlik and Von Kharkov are from Thay, Lukas is from Cormyr, Hiregaard is supposedly from Vaasa, and Gondegal was from the Arabel region).
(Is Vaasi actually supposed to be Faerunian common, but for simplicity's sake we've made common intelligible to everyone more or less? It really seems like that way in the Gazetters, with all of the main Faerunian type domains having majority language as Vaasi (and their Darklords are from there too). Heck, even Gondegal (the dude who ruled Arabel) speaks Vaasi and they have an asterisk beside it but never explain WHY, haha.)
its also forbidden according to the holy texts of The Lawgiver to speak his name.I tend to ignore this as it's clearly the White Wolf authors using IC terms to explain away the OOC licensing issue they were facing. Plenty of 2nd edition products have IC tracts written by Hazlani and/or Nova Vaasan characters referring to him as Bane and the Church of Bane (off the top of my head, Van Richten's Guide to Witches). They did the same thing with Lord Soth, making some silly statement that people were afraid that saying Soth's name would make him return and thus all references to Soth use "The Black Rose." It's a silly licensing hang-up that we don't have to worry about, so I ignore it.
Lots of usefull stuff.
Every prayer is pretty much the same, and in Vaasi
http://www.nwnravenloft.com/forum/index.php?topic=12803.0 (http://www.nwnravenloft.com/forum/index.php?topic=12803.0)
You mean Gazetteer V, right? Gaz IV didn't have anything about the Lawgiver.
Any feedback or critisim upon my book ideas? Not sure what to do for the 2nd book though, the one with laws and punishements.
My only feedback is that I'm not sure we should go pigeonholing the church of the Lawgiver directly into Chrtisian theology (http://biblia.com/bible/nrsv/Ro2.1-16). This is bound to lead to conflicts and inconsistencies when we take unadulterated portions of one religious text and just replace the names.Right. The Lawgiver religion shouldn't be anything remotely resembling Christianity.
My only feedback is that I'm not sure we should go pigeonholing the church of the Lawgiver directly into Chrtisian theology (http://biblia.com/bible/nrsv/Ro2.1-16). This is bound to lead to conflicts and inconsistencies when we take unadulterated portions of one religious text and just replace the names.
Just out of curiosity, what would a Lawful Neutral follower look like. Obviously Lawful Evil is the main alignment but it says Lawful Neutral exists as well