Seeker Religion | DragonLance Saga

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It began as a movement searching for new gods, and turned into a theocracy of its own. Let’s learn more about the Seeker Religion. Buy War of the Lance: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3164/war-of-the-lance-3-5?affiliate_id=50797
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Transcript
Not all Seekers were all bad–in the beginning anyway.
Intro
Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. My name is Adam and today I am going to talk about the Seeker Religion. I would like to take a moment and thank the DLSaga members, and invite you to consider becoming a member by visiting the link in the description below. You can even pick up Dragonlance gaming materials using my affiliate links. I am referencing the novels The Annotated Chronicles, the module DL1 Dragons of Despair, in addition to the Lost Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home and War of the Lance sourcebooks for this information. If I leave anything out or misspeak, please leave a comment below!
Discussion
The Seeker movement was the inevitable result of the gods leaving Krynn. And I know the official gods’ perspective, that mortals left them, but let's be honest, the gods took their clerics and skedaddled. There’s no two ways about it. Famine, regional war and disease were the results, in addition to the massive geographical, and governmental changes caused by the Cataclysm. Naturally the people of the world would look to the heavens for aid as their fathers and grandfathers had done before them, but since the gods were absent, it left a vacuum.

The prevailing belief in the concept of divine beings looking after you is never stronger or more necessary for some, than when you are on your proverbial knees. And the people of Krynn were as bad off as they could be. So a search for new gods began. With every grass-roots movement, it may begin with the best of intentions, it inevitably spirals out to something much worse. The Seeker Religion is no different. They knew the gods had abandoned them, and in their search for new gods to worship–reliable and caring gods, they inevitably made up their own. This religion had its primary holdings in Abanasinia in the third century after the Cataclysm, but it spread farther than that.

A loose knit organization of clerics would travel to the towns of Haven, Solace and Gateway, preaching the Seeker philosophy. There was yet no formalized religion, just the movement of searching for evidence of the gods–any gods. They initially worked independently but quickly realized the strength in numbers and organization. So they began to hold meetings, formalizing the religion. This is not entirely different from the Council of Nicea in our own history where rabbis were bribed and coerced to create the old testament in an effort to unify a dying Roman empire. This series of meetings is where the core philosophy of the Seeker movement was codified: The Seekers are searching for new gods and will announce them, once they are discovered–gods worthy of respect and worship. So they were not just looking for any gods, but rather ones that would serve the people of the world.

This philosophy was unveiled in Haven to less than spectacular results. You see, the Seekers were not the only group leveraging the absence of the gods to manipulate, profit from, and control the people of Krynn; again, like in our own world. In Haven specifically there was a new religion which sprang up around the serpent god Belzor. The brown robed clerics were loath to give up any control over the populace. They would kidnap and murder Seeker representatives if and when they began preaching in Haven, and showcase nightly miracles in their temple. The largest hindrance to winning over the population was that they had a god to worship, and the Seekers had none. Coincidentally the Belzor religion would run into the Companions and specifically a young Raistlin Majere who would reveal them for the charlatans that they were, nearly getting himself burned at the stake in the process, opening yet another vacuum for the Seekers to enter, and enter they did.

The people felt duped, and accepted the seemingly honest search for gods with the Seeker movement with open arms. From Haven, the Seeker religion spread like wildfire. Gateway and Solace quickly joined the trinity of Seeker towns, and many small hamlets would be led by Seeker clerics. It was then that the inevitable happened. As with any organized religion, it outgrows its founders and even its followers, becoming an entity unto itself.

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