Thread:SaynaSLuke/@comment-26538658-20160710013919/@comment-7662967-20160710023653

Sure :) My best advice would probably be, make it natural. When I started writing I could be preachy, and I suppose I still can be, though I try not to. Make the religion show through the characters, and make all lessons it teaches things the characters learn. Make moral lessons learned seem real .. not forced upon the story by you as the author, but flow from the characters through their circumstances, which come from the plot.

For instance, Romsca didn't repent just because I wanted to show a bad to good character arch, and it wasn't because Ignasa snapped his claws ... He's been trying to get Romsca to see her error for years. Her change is brought on by a pile of other things in the plot, which it is said Ignasa gave to her as warnings and signs .. He finally was driven to let her face Lask or follow Ublaz's dark path.

Also, whether you plan for your deity to be perfect or not, they need at least some character. It's not religion in a sense that makes for preachiness, it's showing moral lessons through it that makes it tricky. So, as I said, all lessons should be shown through character and plot ... coming out and saying what the lesson was is something to really avoid, that's up to the readers to interpret. (Like how they do on little kid's shows. Like MLP. 'Dear Princess Celestia, this is what I learned today .... Ahem. The viewer knows what you learned Twilight Sparkle, we watched the whole thing.) Yea, avoid that. Always show, don't tell. ;)

Hope I was somewhat helpful ^^