[Discuss] Adventurers and Religion

[Lyman Stone]

> Funny you should mention that. Are adventurers meant to become full
> members at all? Indirik said they aren't on the bug tracker. The help
> page said they can't be senior members (which I took to mean just
> elders...) Why would adventurers join guild (or for that matter
> religion)? I can only think of 2 things normally
> 1) the usage of communications feature for group hunting (right  
> pain to
> tick a load of boxes every time otherwise)
> 2) some sort of channel to nobles for selling unique items. (rather  
> than
> walking around and say, hey boss, fancy an unique item?)
>
> unless I'm missing something and their scout report is actually  
> useful..
>
> I can't see many nobles wanting a load of adventurers join their
> (active/lots of noble members) guild just to pass on hunting links..
> well.. not when the links are passed to everyone and their dog in the
> guild anyway! though they sure wouldn't mind the unique items!

Erm...I may be mistaken here, but I believe several Popes were,  
technically, commoners. The Catholic Church didn't become noble- 
dominated until 1000ish, I think. I could certainly be wrong. But,  
quite frequently, priests and such became de facto nobles when nobles  
gave money/land to the church, and the church aquired assets which  
needed management, and so priests became the landlords and, thus, de  
facto nobles.

I'm pretty sure that, even into the 1300's, commoners (perhaps what  
we would call "freemen") were achieving relatively prominent ranks in  
the church. I don't know enough about Islam, Confucianism, Buddhism,  
or any other medieval era religions to say for them, though.