I wish more games did stuff like #FinalFantasy Tactic's "Faith" stat. It's mostly a generic force multiplier for incoming magical healing/damage
But if your faith is 0, AKA your character does not trust/believe in the divine whatsoever...magic doesn't affect them. At all. Cannot be healed, or hurt by magic. Which is otherwise, by any other measure, completely real in this universe.
The game mechanic is kind of neat (though requires serious work to tinker with IIRC) but the lore implications are super cool.
Like the 'divine' is real (and, apparently, mostly evil) but it only hurts you if you think it will. But it's also not just psychosomatic/groupthink. You ACTUALLY die.
IDK if it's ever explained in lore but I wonder if atheist characters in the game's world actually see the effects of magic or not.
It's some real Bene Gesserit shit if you see this giant fucking dragon drop from the sky, breathe fire at you and you're just thinking "Fuck off summons aren't real. Fuck you. Nerd."
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