I write books, though to little success, and was recently inspired by Dune to start working on some kind of highly complex political intrigue high fantasy. As I got to thinking, I realized that much of what I'd come up with was essentially a thinly veiled allegory for the state of global affairs right now lol. I thought it might be fun to ask around and see if any of y'all have ever rolled similar ideas around in your head and what these ideas consisted of.
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I have one in my DnD campaign actually. Cultists who agitate against the gods after an event analogous to the destruction of Gommorah.
They claim to be proponents of a set of new moral principles that exclude uncaring gods. They claim to be humanists who focus on the good of mortals.
But in reality they actually serve an ancient evil from the distant past, and spend an enormous amount of time and effort gaslighting mortals that they don't exist at all while fomenting strife between as many factions as possible.
Pretty much the left.
I think re-telling biblical stories in a novel context while shaving off the serial numbers is a good way to go.
I used this technique as a part of a campaign world I was writing: https://skyblessed.obsidianportal.com/wikis/mythology