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[NotBeouwulf]

Here's a partial list of current day polytheistic religions:  Shinto, Voodoo, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism, Wicca, Jadoo, Cargo cults, Asatru, Santeria, Yoruba.  There are others of smaller scale pantheistic religions, but collectively they account for nearly two billion of Earth's  seven billion people.  Comparatively, they are nowhere near the majority, but 2/7ths isn't precisely insignificant.  And if you add in atheists and agnostics, the alternative percentage is even greater.[/size]

Mainstream Hinduism is monotheistic. They consider all what outsiders consider "gods" to all be aspects of the same god. Theravada Buddhism doesn't have any gods, and Mahayana don't technically consider the Buddhavista to be gods. Jainism doesn't have any gods either.

[sycophanticchallenger]

Here's a partial list of current day polytheistic religions:  [i]Shinto, Voodoo, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism, Wicca, Jadoo, Cargo cults, Asatru, Santeria, Yoruba.[

Hey, I agree that DA:I was pretty heavy handed w/ Monotheism. In fact, I disliked how I was "forced" to choose grey area/avoidant answers when posed questions along these lines, as I didn't want to lose approval from party members, but then, I guess it makes sense that, if the majority of the populace where Chantry followers, they would disapprove of differing religious ideals.

Of the religions outlined above, how likely is it that they accounted for 2/7 of the populace of middle ages church dominated European nations? Considering people were burned/murdered for differing ideals, I think you would have a more uniform view on religion in that setting.

[CaptainPatch]

Of the religions outlined above, how likely is it that they accounted for 2/7 of the populace of middle ages church dominated European nations? Considering people were burned/murdered for differing ideals, I think you would have a more uniform view on religion in that setting.

2/7ths accounts for the entire planet, not just Europe.  (I really don't see 2 billion people being jammed into just Europe.  In 2007 it was estimated to be just 731 million.)  Naturally, most continents have a predominant religion, but throughout the ages, there have been pockets of tiny minority religions scattered about.

 

The heretic burnings and witch hunts and "convert or die" pogroms was sort of what I was suggesting is missing in the DA series.  Chantry is a VERY demanding, intolerant theology.  Everyone must belong and everybody had better worship the Maker the 'right" way.  [Chasind and other "inferior" races probably are exempted, because after all, they're not "real" people.  Much like most Europeans in general never really thought of Indians as being "real" people.]  Just like there are Templars rooting out apostates, there should be a special branch that hunts down heretics, deviants, and slackers.  And they would be rather high profile, on a par with the Spanish Inquisition, just to make sure everyone understands that there WILL be severe consequences for anyone foolish enough to speculate about any variations of worship that differs from approved Chantry dogma.

[LordParbr]

You've got the dwarves revering their ancestors, so that's not exactly worshiping a god(s).  And the elves sort of revere Mother Nature more than anything else.  And the Qunari have their Qun, which is more than anything just a version of Bushido (Japanese code of honor).  But the humans just have the Maker, who has displaced the pagan pantheons of long gone ages.  So humans at least have the Maker.... or nothing.  Does that sound like any  human situation?  Especially humans that derive from a multitude of cultures.  Cultures that evolved over centuries, going back to the Ancient History of Thedas.  If there is any theological strife, it is between Chantry-approved religion and apostates trying to bring back the "Old Gods".  Given the lengthy history of Thedas, shouldn't there really be at least a half-dozen "major" theologies?

It absolutely does sound, pretty much, exactly like medieval Europe... Also, the Dalish worship a Pantheon. They're not devout, but they do still believe that their Gods exist. The Emperium worships the Old Gods still, I think, too, which were dragons

[Kimarous]

As someone who tends to view most fantasy from the lens of "loosely based on medieval Europe", and how medieval Europe and the surrounding regions was basically one big mix of Abrahamanic religions, I view it as nigh-impossible to be "too monotheistic". Were it an "ancient" setting akin the days of Rome, Egypt, Carthage, etc., THEN I might agree, but given how it's not, it strikes me as a non-issue.

[General TSAR]

Tis gonna be gud.