Backstage: Setting notes

(By the way, the dreamwidth RP thread with Leaf is now waiting on Leaf to receive any Nifl-related PMs so he can spittake in front of Ivan. XD)

I have actually come up with an entire different thing for him to spittake about (finally figured out how to have Esthfora mention Mark exactly the way I wanted), but excellent, that will be a great thing to drop on him while he's freaking out about this.

As a side note for anyone who seems to be a little befuddled by Hadassah's job, she is basically what would amount to a Federal Agent intern assigned to investigate events that are appear interuniversal. if she were in a show, it would be something like their version of the X-Files, but it is real life so there is a lot of down time and she is not a protagonist, so she gets pulled into occasional field investigation, but mostly does boring paperwork and sacrifices in triplicate to beaurocratic gods.

I am tempted to leave a short and quippy joke here to leave the answer ambiguous, but that would be more fun in character than out.

Because Pantheon is so full of literal gods and magic that sort of sprang back into the cultural consciousness in the last 600 years, there are many who are prone to believing that the gods are responsible for many modern features of society indirectly, both good and bad. The slow, but inescapably modern phenomenon of Bureaucracy is blamed on and performed as half-in-jest tribute to deities that tend to represent law and order or occasionally to gods of secrets and planning.

None of the gods specifically claim responsibility or ownership of the bureaucracy domain, unless there are some obscure ones that I didn't know existed, perhaps in Chinese culture.

Aside: Only gods that have existed in the real world have ever existed in Pantheon. there have been a few exeptions such as a couple pantheons that were destroyed because they were too violent and dangerous for humans and now there are interdimensional gods too. No DND style gods exist in Pantheon.

So, in regards to your question: no, there are no actual alters of beaurocracy. But many people do respect it as something like a ritual, with somewhere between the personal level of importance between "knocking on wood" and "being polite to the supervisor that signs your paycheck and distributes raises". A couple deities may even gain some power from these rituals, though not as much as from direct worship.

Now, when Hadassah and the rest of her word realizes that bureaucracy is as common as dirt in other world with less direct divine influence, who's to say whether this ritualistic bureaucracy eventually fades from being a cultural influence. ( that's a long way off and I am not sure yet)

Other worlds have plants, and there are presumably deities of plants. So the commonness of bureaucracy probably isn't all that informative.

Moved the Dungeon posts to their own thread.