I apologize for the short break I’ve been on, I’ll be getting back to work now. In the meantime, I’ve had another couple ideas for some of the other religions.
First one is a religion that has a faction/estate system that would lean very heavily on the monks and mystic’s society system. I was thinking that the system would have 3 religious scholarly houses/lodges/factions/sects that you could interact with, each with different goals or ideas related to fat admiration (whether it be learning/controlling the fetish, understanding the fascination or the indulgence respectively). These houses wouldn’t be limited to only one Fatocracy faith per se, but one specific faith (as well as any pagan religion that has the equivalent religion feature) will have many, many more interactions with the houses. If you follow any Fatocracy faith that doesn’t focus on the houses, exceptional individuals can be offered invitations into the house they best fit into. All of the houses are rivals, while they don’t necessarily hate each other, they have conflicting goals. There will be reputation system for the three houses that can go up and down depending your actions while doing tasks for them. Reach a high enough reputation with one of them, and you can apply to that house for membership. memberships will give you more tasks, rewards and buffs (although, be careful when doing tasks that involve sabotaging the other houses, you might end up a target if not dead). If you have monks and mystics installed, if you get more positive reputation for your house (after membership, you gain access to the inner lodge societies to further increase rewards as well as get even more new events. You can only join one house. Here’s a few more specifics:
The first one tackles the idea of learning why people were made to be fascinated with weight gain and fat people, even to the point of having a fetish for it. The purpose would be to attempt to further understand their deity/deity’s plan (I say deity because of the fact that different religious groups can be in the houses). This house will be very similar to the Hermetic society in tone and events.
The second one focuses on just embracing this aspect of themselves and indulging in it. This stems from the idea that their deity made them this way for a reason, so it would be in their best interest to indulge in this lifestyle, believing that it would be a form of mortal arrogance to attempt to understand the divine. This house will have the most to do with gluttony, stuffing and deliberate weight gain.
The final one focuses on the fetish exclusively, but they seek and claim to have a way to remove it if the individual desires. They believe the fetish is a religious burden placed on them, and seek to prove their righteousness by discovering a path to remove it and help those that seek said help. The problem is that the best they can do right now is to simply offer aid in covering up their member’s fetishes (but they claim to have a cure) This is the only house that will accept people of any religion into their doors due to their focus being the suppression of the fetish. Mechanically, they are will give you the ability to remove the “exposed fetishist” modifier after quite a bit of devotion to them.
I came up with these because I’ve lately been bouncing around playing through and enjoying the factions in Fallout New Vegas, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, and Morrowind.
The other idea is more simple. I read that one link about that one Muslim culture that force fed their women to find partners, and figured a way to adapt it into the mod. Instead of just family members though, I think I will also go for concubines as well. The idea is very simple, fatten up the character you want to marry off, and you will be payed in gold based on how fat they are. Due to limitations, I will probably have to make it so you have to marry them off to a newly generated character instead using the normal marriage system though. This would also mean that I would make a way for you to marry a newly generated character, and receive a buff to give incentive to marry this way instead of the traditional method.