Sableflame

[kelvmor]

<p>What exactly is the deity that the Sableflame cultists worship? Is it really a deity, or is just a powerful fire elemental?</p>

[Cusashorn]

Well it's a cult, which pretty much means it's not an actual diety....

[kelvmor]

<p><cite>Cusashorn wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>Well it's a cult, which pretty much means it's not an actual diety....</blockquote><p>From Dictionary.com:</p><p><div><h2>cult</h2>  <span ><embed type="application/x-[Removed for Content]" width="17" height="15" src="http://sp.dictionary.com/dictstatic/d/g/speaker.swf" ></embed> <span style="display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; display: inline;">kuhlt</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">]</span> <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/help/luna/Spell_pron_key.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://sp.dictionary.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif" border="0" /></a> <span style="display: inline;"><a class="pronlink" title="Click to show IPA">Show IPA</a></span></span></span></div><div><div><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; display: inline; font-style: italic; font-size: 13px; padding-right: 3px;"><span style="position: static;"><span style="position: static; cursor: default;">noun</span></span></span><div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #7b7b7b; display: block; float: left; width: 28px;"><span style="position: static;"><span style="position: static; color: #333333; cursor: default;">1.</span></span></span><div><span style="position: static;"><span style="position: static;">a</span> <span style="position: static; cursor: default;">particular</span> <span style="position: static;">system</span> <span style="position: static;">of</span> <span style="position: static;">religious</span> <span style="position: static;">worship,</span> <span style="position: static;">especially</span> <span style="position: static;">with</span><span style="position: static; cursor: default;">reference</span> <span style="position: static;">to</span> <span style="position: static;">its</span> <span style="position: static;">rites</span> <span style="position: static;">and</span> <span style="position: static;">ceremonies.</span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #7b7b7b; display: block; float: left; width: 28px;"><span style="position: static;"><span style="position: static;">2.</span></span></span><div><span style="position: static;"><span style="position: static; cursor: default;">an</span> <span style="position: static; cursor: default;">instance</span> <span style="position: static; cursor: default;">of</span> <span style="position: static;">great</span> <span style="position: static;">veneration</span> <span style="position: static;">of</span> <span style="position: static;">a</span> <span style="position: static;">person,</span> <span style="position: static;">ideal,</span> <span style="position: static;">or</span> <span style="position: static;">thing,</span><span style="position: static;">especially</span> <span style="position: static;">as</span> <span style="position: static; cursor: default;">manifested</span> <span style="position: static;">by</span> <span style="position: static;">a</span> <span style="position: static;">body</span> <span style="position: static;">of</span> <span style="position: static;">admirers:</span> </span><span style="display: inline; font-style: italic; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="position: static;"><span style="position: static;">the</span> </span><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/physical+fitness">physical fitness</a><span style="position: static;"> <span style="position: static;">cult.</span></span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #7b7b7b; display: block; float: left; width: 28px;"><span style="position: static;"><span style="position: static;">3.</span></span></span><div><span style="position: static;"><span style="position: static;">the</span> </span><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/object">object</a><span style="position: static;"> <span style="position: static;">of</span> <span style="position: static; cursor: default;">such</span> <span style="position: static;">devotion.</span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #7b7b7b; display: block; float: left; width: 28px;"><span style="position: static;"><span style="position: static;">4.</span></span></span><div><span style="position: static;"><span style="position: static;">a</span> <span style="position: static;">group</span> <span style="position: static;">or</span> <span style="position: static;">sect</span> <span style="position: static; cursor: default;">bound</span> <span style="position: static;">together</span> <span style="position: static;">by</span> <span style="position: static;">veneration</span> <span style="position: static;">of</span> <span style="position: static;">the</span> <span style="position: static;">same</span><span style="position: static;">thing,</span> <span style="position: static;">person,</span> <span style="position: static;">ideal,</span> <span style="position: static; cursor: default;">etc.</span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #7b7b7b; display: block; float: left; width: 28px;"><span style="position: static;"><span style="position: static;">5.</span></span></span><div><span style="display: inline;"><span style="display: inline; font-style: italic; font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="position: static;"><span style="position: static;">Sociology</span> </span></span><span style="position: static;">. </span></span><span style="position: static;"><span style="position: static;">a</span> <span style="position: static;">group</span> <span style="position: static; cursor: default;">having</span> <span style="position: static; cursor: default;">a</span> <span style="position: static;">sacred</span> <span style="position: static; color: #0055bb; cursor: pointer;">ideology</span> <span style="position: static; cursor: default;">and</span> <span style="position: static;">a</span> </span><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/set">set</a><span style="position: static;"> <span style="position: static;">of</span><span style="position: static;">rites</span> <span style="position: static;">centering</span> <span style="position: static;">around</span> <span style="position: static;">their</span> <span style="position: static; cursor: default;">sacred</span> <span style="position: static; cursor: default;">symbols.</span></span></div></div></div></div></p><p>The whole idea of a cult as a "fake" religion is a purely modern (I.E.: The past two decades or so) definition. You can easily say that almost any religion IRL is a cult, because they are.</p>

[Cusashorn]

There are cults all over the game that are of the "you're not part of this deity's worship, and thus present a problem to society at whole" just like the Sableflames are. Cults are bad, so worshipping a flame elemental is reason enough for Neriak to get rid of them.

[DrkVsr]

<p><span style="font-size: medium; color: #993300; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Don't they worship that big flamehead you that you trick into coming down and turning them into briquets? Pretty sure he had a name, just can't remember what it is at the moment</span></p>