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.
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.