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Originally Posted by Anders
That's the mechanic we use to describe the effect, but it can be rationalized as something else.
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Having a Patron at all means it's extrinsic, and not therefore mystical. At any rate if you make a Christian or Muslim character with Divine Favor, they aren't likely to rationalize it as something else!
Certainly using these rules in Yrth would make it look a lot like God does exist, to the point that I think it would be a major departure for the setting, even if you did have some meta explanation that the characters aren't aware of in-setting.
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I believe Mailanka uses it to describe the Force of the Star Wars Universe, which is definitely not a god.
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Agnosticism about the Force doesn't go very far in
Star Wars; even Han gave up on cynicism by the end of the film.