Other Teachings
Dweomer teaches that each soul has a responsibility to live and learn in order to advance itself spiritually. This is accomplished by living multiple incarnations, both as a male and as a female, in order to learn more about the true self and eventually establish oneself as a Great One, a spirit that has evolved to a point where it no longer needs to incarnate and is one with the Light behind all gods.
The gods themselves are in fact representations of higher-planar forces, which have been imbued with some degree of sentience by being worshiped. Both dweomer-workers and priests are able to tap these forces, though the dweomer-workers seem more adept at it. Deverrian priests are seldom shown channeling god-force; the only effect they seem able to achieve with it is divination. (Bardekian priests, on the other hand, seem to have knowledge and skills comparable to secular dweomer-workers.)
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