Talk:Padhran religion

Done! I think I've finished by Padhran project. There's a fair bit more to say from Storm Riders, Black Courser, and Blood Charge, about Furo, the Red Mountain Sect and their temple, Gaumahavi, and Sandiraksiva, but it's extensive and integral to those adventure modules, and more specific to those subjects. So, I'm calling it done here.

Besides, I think I deserve enlightenment after disentangling the Padhran faith from the Path of Enlightenment, alongside two other disconnected gods. It's very sloppy, mixing up the two major religions in the Hordelands setting. The Horde seems to have made a half-arsed attempt to merge them, purely on the basis of enlightenment concepts and the Path's mixed Confucian/Buddhist style. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised to find a link to Zakhara's Enlightenment.

In any case, the Padhran faith is an interesting one for a D&D setting, despite being a close ripoff of Buddhism. I'd like to know more about how reincarnation is meant to work in the Realms/D&D, since I don't think any other faith has employed it before, apart from the reincarnate spell.

And that completes my major Kara-Turan religions project. Whew! — BadCatMan (talk) 07:57, April 19, 2017 (UTC)


 * Congratulations! The wiki is so much richer for you folks exploring Kara-Tur, Zakhara, Maztica, and Returned Abeir. Donuts for everyone! OOOOOOOOO &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 12:35, April 19, 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Though I realised I wasn't quite done yet, needing to do the same for the Path and then discovering an earlier ambiguity. I'm glad to be clearing up some issues for the wiki and even some long-running confusion for the fandom. I could have saved myself much confusion and online debating years ago if I'd been doing this then.


 * For the record, some other solutions I didn't want to stamp into the article without justification, from sane to crazy:


 * The Padhran religion is also named some form of "path/way of enlightenment", leading to endless confusion.
 * The Padhran religion did in fact move east, and didn't stay in the Hordelands. The Way of Enlightenment of Kozakura is indeed a form of the Padhran religion. The Padhran faith influenced the Path of Enlightenment in various places, explaining some similar aspects and confusion.
 * The Great Teacher Saizu the Immortal is an incarnation/padhrasattva of the Padhra, and created the Padhran-like faiths of Kozakura and Wa.
 * The Padhra became the Celestial Emperor, allowing him to have created both religions without contradicting anything. — BadCatMan (talk) 12:38, April 21, 2017 (UTC)