Mystic from specific religious backgrounds

[Blake_Alexander]

I was wondering if anyone uses specific religious backgrounds in their campaigns for their Mystics (For instance, if a character states that they are from, let's say, a Hindu background, do you work up anything on the spiritual forces that they are interacting with? Such as, which spiritual forces interact with which domains). I've been playing with the idea a little lately and I through I'd approach the subject here.

[Blake_Alexander]

Since I have someone playing a character from a Roman Catholic background who will be taking a level in Spiritualist, I've worked up a list of Patron Saints who are devoted to aspects that correspond with the Mystic Domains. The PCs will be studying form the notes of a Mystic (A Sister of the Holy Cross) who foretold the PCs coming in her prophecies (gained from divinations).

All - St Mary
Air - St. Joseph of Cupertino
Animal - St. Vitus
Chaos - St. Dymphna
Charm - St. John Chrysoston
Creation - St Rita of Cascia
Death - St. Margaret
Destruction - N/A
Divination - St. Joan of Arc
Earth - St Bernard of Montioux
Evil - N/A
Fire - St. Agatha
Good - Gabriel the Archangel
Guardian - St. Genevieve
Healing - St. Luke
Knowledge - St. Catherine of Alexandria/St Thomas Acquinas
Law - St. John of Capistrano
Magic - ?
Necromancy - N/A
Plant - St. Isidore
Protection - St. Sebastian
Strength - St. George
Summoning - St Francis of Assisi
Sun - St Dominic
War - St Michael the Archangel
Water - St Florian
Weather - Raphael the Archangel

[ScS of the Fraternity]

Neat list Blake.

For the magic domain, was there not some sort of saint called "Simon the Magus" (I only picked this up from that movie, The Saint,).

As for destruction sphere, the Old Testament God could always pick that up.

[Stygian Inquirer]

For the necromancy domain you could use the Voodan religion.

[Dion of the Fraternity]

For Magic I recommend Saint Thomas Aquinas. Didn't he write some sort of Libram of magic seals and stuff?

[Cole Deschain]

Voudoun is complex enough that you could make a similar list for the Loas.

Voudoun as a whole would be an exceptionally poor choice for Necromancy.

Now, a servant of Baron Samedi... that would work.

[Blake_Alexander]

Here is a similar list I put together for Mystics from a Hindu background. Since I have far less expereince with the Hindu religion that I do the Catholic Religion some of my suggestions may not fit as well though.

All Ganesha
Air Garuda
Animal Annapurna
Chaos Maya
Charm Lakshmi
Creation Barhma
Death Kali
Destruction Shiva
Divination Marici
Earth Vamana
Evil ?
Fire Kali
Good Shakti
Guardian Durga
Healing Dhanwantri
Knowledge Kartikay/Saraswati
Law ?
Magic Shakiti
Necromancy ?
Plant Annapurna
Protection Vishnu
Strength Balrama
Summoning Shakiti
Sun Rudra
War Hunuman
Water Ganga
Weather Indra

[Olly]

Animal - St. Vitus

Personally, I would have given the Animal domain to St. Francis of Assisi, after all, he was always very kind to animals.

[Blake_Alexander]

Animal - St. Vitus

Personally, I would have given the Animal domain to St. Francis of Assisi, after all, he was always very kind to animals.

I actually considered that, but chose St. Vitus because it falls inside the element that he is Patron over, and moved St. Francis of Assisi to Summoning since it also seems to deal with Animals Primarily. I could have easily gone the other way and put Vitus over Summoning and St. Fransis of Assisi as Animals.