Are there people in your world that just don’t get it, and keep spouting opinions that make no sense given the context of your world or would be disastrous if actually implemented? What are some of the most common bad takes in your world and what makes them so bad?
Interesting! How powerful are the Pious Dissolutionists? Does the Bright Way declare them as apostates or anything or otherwise try to suppress them?
Initially not very powerful. The movement was most popular among the missionaries (naturally) as well as on the planet Hearthside. The tide turned when a dissolutionist preacher on Hearthside managed to convince half of the Bright Way’s private army (an order of warrior monks called the Knights of the Sun) to join the dissolutionists.
As for how the PD’s were treated by the wider clergy, a lot of them were sent to the Outer Belt to get them out of the way. The Outer Belt was the home of the missionaries (as it’s close to interstellar space) as well as former ecclesiastical slaves both manumitted and runaways, who formed the nucleus of the radical secularists that would become the Partisans.
I summarize things better here, here, and here.
I really like your technical style of worldbuilding. I’m fond of the little details that grand sweeping stories gloss over.
Thank you! I like your writing too! It’s very interesting and definitely parallels how different factions in real religions developed!
Is CBB Forum like a world building forum where people can post their lore? Would you recommend it?
The CBB is mostly for conlanging but has a sizeable worldbuilding/conworlding subforum. You don’t have to be a conlanger to enjoy it. I would definitely recommend especially if you’re nostalgic for the traditional forum experience. It’s absolutely a better format for long-lasting topics compared to Lemmy/Reddit, where threads get buried very quickly regardless of how active they are.
Thank you!