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Faithless in the Wall

So what happens to

1) Monks of the Old Order 2) People that have multiple patrons (is that possible?) 3) People that acknowledge the gods and pray, but have no patron 4) Someone who was born, say, 2000 miles under the earth in a prison cell, who never left the cell, never met anyone else and was fed by an unknown entity- so that this someone does not even know there are gods and has no way of chosing a patron even if he had 5) People that had a patron, but fell out of favour with him

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1) I really have no idea. Monks, and especially the 'entity' the Old Order worships, have never really been adequately explained. I'll make an EFU call and say : WALL.

2) It is not possible to have multiple patrons. Believing the gods exist is enough to avoid WALL though.

3) I am not 100% certain how it is decided who they go off with, but they certainly would not go to the WALL.

4)WALL

5) It depends on what they did after this fact. If they spit on the gods and chose to worship their uncle Benny, false. If they lost faith in the existence of the gods entirely, WALL. If they moved on to other gods, they'd go wherever that god is.

UPDATE courtesy of one of our top FR lorehounds:

<Alyssara> Actually. If you know about the deities, but make a choice not to worship any of them, even if you believe they exist, it counts as Faithless as well. <Alyssara> It was clarified pretty well in Crucible, the Trial of Cyric the Mad, and Mask of the Betrayer. <metropakt> I'm pretty sick of all the flip flopping! <Alyssara> So am I! <Alyssara> Did you know, that all children are faithless? <Alyssara> Until dedicated to a deity. <Alyssara> Thus, it's an old tradition in the Forgotten Realms, that if a child was undedicated, one parent would commit suicide. <metropakt> I will update post soon! <Alyssara> To lead them to the afterlife of their deity. <Alyssara> However. It has been said. That even 'one' prayer to a deity. It doesn't matter which. Just one, a conscious choice like that, so long as you don't turn your back at them later. <Alyssara> Is enough for a deity to claim you. <Alyssara> Its a really weird standard for faithless and false.

Wow, that religion in the FR totally sucks.

Thanks Metro!