I should note that folkish pagans will not work with universalists in this scenario - we are more likely to work with some sort of ethno nationalist Christian before wicca.
I am not very well-versed on paganism, and a lot of the information I have regarding it and its interactions with other Christians is derived from Covington's Northwest Front novels. I don't think he was a pagan either, but he portrays them in a slightly more positive light than Christians and seemed to know a lot about the late 20th century/early 21st century RW pagan sphere. He included universalist pagans in his writings, albeit far less prominently than folkish pagans, so I've included them in the NAR's OBA.
They end up becoming a major part of the novels way later on. The protagonist is gradually given more freedom to wage war on the enemy however he sees fit, and he realizes that a lot of the Aztlan rank-and-file are basically slave conscripts. He works with a roving band of Cristeros and starts recruiting some of the captives into their ranks, and becomes a kind of Lawrence of Arabia figure but for Mexican Catholics.
I feel like there's a big missed opportunity with Santa Muerte. Forget New Vinland's silly heathen cosplay, Santa Muerte is a way more authentically pagan cult--she's got a specific domain over which she has power, she is "beyond good and evil" and you worship her because you need her protection and not because she's some shining paragon of virtue (in some interpretations, she might be, but that is not why she is a goddess), and she need not come with any totalizing belief system. What if, instead of having some uniform established Church of Santa Muerte, what if Aztlán prescribed specific rituals and observances related to Santa Muerte, and measured piety by you doing those things and being there for those observances rather than some specific creed of Santamuertism? What if there were hundreds if not thousands of local Santa Muerte sub-cults, and distinctions could be made between the appropriate rites and sacrifices for Santa Muerte de Nogales as opposed to those that appropriate for Our Lady of Plainview? What if there were a countless number of other gods and saints and numinous beings of various categories, who have to be negotiated with, appeased, and sometimes balanced against one another in a spiritual Finlandization? What if piety were considered not an individual path towards salvation, but a collective and public maintenance of the peace between a community and its gods, where impiety, blasphemy, etc. were considered as threats to that collective peace rather than one's own individual soul? Then you're talking a much deeper and more realistically pagan way of life than some Upper Midwest warlord trying to stitch the Norse pantheon back together out of translated sagas and Bathory lyrics (or a North American Republic Nazi trying to do the same with edgier pop-culture source material).
They’re doing okay where they are. They aren’t ruling any factions—with one weird, notable exception—but they form an important agricultural backbone where they can be found. Factions that have a heavy reliance on the Amish can be found in Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
I should note that folkish pagans will not work with universalists in this scenario - we are more likely to work with some sort of ethno nationalist Christian before wicca.
I am not very well-versed on paganism, and a lot of the information I have regarding it and its interactions with other Christians is derived from Covington's Northwest Front novels. I don't think he was a pagan either, but he portrays them in a slightly more positive light than Christians and seemed to know a lot about the late 20th century/early 21st century RW pagan sphere. He included universalist pagans in his writings, albeit far less prominently than folkish pagans, so I've included them in the NAR's OBA.
Understandable position.
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They end up becoming a major part of the novels way later on. The protagonist is gradually given more freedom to wage war on the enemy however he sees fit, and he realizes that a lot of the Aztlan rank-and-file are basically slave conscripts. He works with a roving band of Cristeros and starts recruiting some of the captives into their ranks, and becomes a kind of Lawrence of Arabia figure but for Mexican Catholics.
I feel like there's a big missed opportunity with Santa Muerte. Forget New Vinland's silly heathen cosplay, Santa Muerte is a way more authentically pagan cult--she's got a specific domain over which she has power, she is "beyond good and evil" and you worship her because you need her protection and not because she's some shining paragon of virtue (in some interpretations, she might be, but that is not why she is a goddess), and she need not come with any totalizing belief system. What if, instead of having some uniform established Church of Santa Muerte, what if Aztlán prescribed specific rituals and observances related to Santa Muerte, and measured piety by you doing those things and being there for those observances rather than some specific creed of Santamuertism? What if there were hundreds if not thousands of local Santa Muerte sub-cults, and distinctions could be made between the appropriate rites and sacrifices for Santa Muerte de Nogales as opposed to those that appropriate for Our Lady of Plainview? What if there were a countless number of other gods and saints and numinous beings of various categories, who have to be negotiated with, appeased, and sometimes balanced against one another in a spiritual Finlandization? What if piety were considered not an individual path towards salvation, but a collective and public maintenance of the peace between a community and its gods, where impiety, blasphemy, etc. were considered as threats to that collective peace rather than one's own individual soul? Then you're talking a much deeper and more realistically pagan way of life than some Upper Midwest warlord trying to stitch the Norse pantheon back together out of translated sagas and Bathory lyrics (or a North American Republic Nazi trying to do the same with edgier pop-culture source material).
What happened to the Amish?
They’re doing okay where they are. They aren’t ruling any factions—with one weird, notable exception—but they form an important agricultural backbone where they can be found. Factions that have a heavy reliance on the Amish can be found in Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Oh cool, I thought they has developed further on the hinterlands. It would be interesting to see how the are on a future article