[Wids]

So I guess Tristella didn't really do too far wrong that one time when she walked into the Manor with about 5,000-something Talons and dumped over 1,000 of them in Myrla's lap. You're welcome, Loviatar. :D

So tithing's foremost purpose is Alignment shifts, followed by Notoriety. Between all the tithing and all the slaving, Tristella's probably pretty well convicted in her goddess' ways by now. But then I hear about characters like the Ilmatari paladin who became a Cyricist blackguard, and I imagine that characters like that would benefit from this system quite handsomely. :)

And there are the feel-good upholding-your-temple roleplay reasons, of course. I've also heard that tithes somehow influence the temple's power in Thay. Maybe that's why Loviatar's Manor can raise the dead when it seems like most of the temples in Bezantur--including some of those which serve more powerful gods--can't. Or am I off the mark here? :-/