Look. All I'm saying is, description of onyx in the game calls out that it is a stone of Shar. Onyx = Shar. That's basically what the description says. Shar walks, onyx is created.
Cleric shows up in armor with onyx stones on it as big as day. She has them on her shoulders and on a circlet on her forehead. Clerics are supposed to require a spell focus which is their religious symbol. The ONLY item that even comes close, which actually should be a required item for her to keep on her to cast spells, is her circlet. It has a big onyx right there in the center.
So, let's use another religious symbol, since we may not want to keep bringing Christianity into it. Don't want people getting all fired up about religion here. The exact religion here isn't the point.
So let's use the Yin Yang. You just crashed on a beach, the boat you were on has sunk. You encounter a person with robes that have the Yin Yang all over them. You discover they are a priest, but they don't offer up what priesthood they are apart of. But they have Yin Yang all over them.
All I'm suggesting is that a Religion check be made. If our world was an RPG and the scenario above I just provided were applied to our real world, a person would roll a Religion roll to see if they recognize the Yin Yang symbol. 10 or higher, a moderate difficulty. A roll of 10 would give me information that the Yin Yang belongs to some sort of Oriental religion/philosophy. I made the roll, so I know something, but I don't really know much about the Yin Yang. I just know it's religious/philisophical, and it is Oriental in nature. I also happen to know that the meaning is that there is a bit of evil in good and a bit of good in evil. These are basics about Yin Yang.
A roll of 15 provides me with more information. Ah, it has its roots in Taoism. It is a Chinese religious/philosophical symbol. The yin is the dark swirl, associated with shadows, femininity, and the trough of a wave; the yang, the light swirl, represents brightness, passibon and growth and is also the masculine color.
Either way, if I discovered that this person is a priest and he is wearing robes with a Taoist symbol all over them, I'm gonna guess that this priest is a Taoist Priest.
Likewise, if onyx is a gemstone of Shar, and a cleric is wearing armor that has these gemstones, and she is also carrying around a spell focus holy symbol with an onyx at the center, if I make a Religion roll and know that onyx = Shar, I'd probably make the connection. At the very least, the player should be informed, if you make the Religion check, who shar is and that onyx usually represents Shar so the player can make the connection right away.
Unless... again... they really want to do some big Shadowheart reveal to those who, for some reason, don't know she's a Cleric of Shar, since by now unless you know nothing about the game you should know she is one... and if that's what they're going for, a Big Shar Reveal, then they REALLY REALLY shouldn't put her in Dark Justiciar armor with big onyx stones all over it.
I'm just saying. I see Yin Yang... I know you're a priest... doesn't take much to put that together as priest of Taoism, since I know about Taoism and the Yin Yang symbol. However, if there is a person who just knows it as a Chinese symbol, they may not put two and two together.
So, again, I"m just asking for a Religion check. If the character rolls success, they know it's typically a Shar stone. If fail, they know nothing.
