They mention that it’s weird that the clerics are running the joint, but that everyone else also has clerics.
What is a cleric in the context of the game BoS is the question. They don’t exist in the game. They’re clearly a religious caste and seem to my mind to be inserted to make the BoS more obviously coded to the contemporary American right wing.
Fair. I don’t think it’s a bad change compared to other huge changes. The BoS are always a bit different from game to game. I can see them developing a chaplain like figure in the clerics that one chapter goes hog wild on.
I like the way all the new chapters seemed bad in their own unique ways, Coronado being extra misogynistic, Grand Canyon sleazy, Yosemite’s leader seemed most rational but mercenary.
A fun fact there is that that has been fanon for a while as I understand it, based on the fact that every game messes with their representation. So in fan representations you’ll have a Texas Chapter who are cowboys or something.
I don’t really like the clerics as a modification to the BoS formula, because I don’t think they really serve a purpose. The BoS as doctrinaire bigots was explored better without it, and their self destructive obsession with their rigid beliefs was also explored better without it.
To me the exchange of:
We’ll die out.
I know
Is a better critique of the BoS as an institution than retconning in a caste of priests. Even the fallout 4 BoS staring their own destruction in the eyes and deciding that they would rather go out as conquering fascists than go silently is a better take on the BoS going rotten.
Season 2 addresses that the Chapter lead by Quintus is weirdly religious with heaps of clerics.
They mention that it’s weird that the clerics are running the joint, but that everyone else also has clerics. What is a cleric in the context of the game BoS is the question. They don’t exist in the game. They’re clearly a religious caste and seem to my mind to be inserted to make the BoS more obviously coded to the contemporary American right wing.
Fair. I don’t think it’s a bad change compared to other huge changes. The BoS are always a bit different from game to game. I can see them developing a chaplain like figure in the clerics that one chapter goes hog wild on.
I like the way all the new chapters seemed bad in their own unique ways, Coronado being extra misogynistic, Grand Canyon sleazy, Yosemite’s leader seemed most rational but mercenary.
A fun fact there is that that has been fanon for a while as I understand it, based on the fact that every game messes with their representation. So in fan representations you’ll have a Texas Chapter who are cowboys or something.
I don’t really like the clerics as a modification to the BoS formula, because I don’t think they really serve a purpose. The BoS as doctrinaire bigots was explored better without it, and their self destructive obsession with their rigid beliefs was also explored better without it.
To me the exchange of:
Is a better critique of the BoS as an institution than retconning in a caste of priests. Even the fallout 4 BoS staring their own destruction in the eyes and deciding that they would rather go out as conquering fascists than go silently is a better take on the BoS going rotten.