Thanks for the suggestion, @Gforce! I think the gameworld’s religions are going to remain more akin to the Greek/Middle Eastern model than the South Asian. Adding a Hindu-esque option would bring the game closer to the richness of reality…but there’s only so much I can do in one gameworld, and I’m interested in exploring/critiquing variations on more exclusivist theisms.
Which of course would require all of them to adopt some new, important meta-beliefs which had not previously been any part of their belief system. Hinduism/panentheism makes a plausible and attractive offer… but I’m afraid from the perspective of many people raised in a monotheism, it will unquestionably be “creating a new religion.”
A metaphysic that can claim to include both kenon and Angels will bring harmony among those who accept it, while others reject it as a betrayal of one or both. And in the gameworld, the overwhelming majority would fall into the “rejecting” category. A new faith attempting to include all others obviously wouldn’t bring harmony with any Ecclesiast who held anything close to the current, rigid Xthonic orthodoxy, nor with the passionate Halassurq followers of Ummay and Kormuz. The Abhumans, who are polytheists of a sort, wouldn’t agree to an accommodation with kenon, which they would see as a needlessly reckless, destructive creed. The Nyr skeptics are quite adamant that they won’t share a banner with Xthonos-followers.
A high-CHA rebel introducing a Hindu-esque metaphysic could potentially overcome some of that resistance, but at the end of the day we could still expect a holy war. As we can with the religion of the Common Angelic Voice.