[Zsinj16]

One of my favorite subjects in the fantasy genre of novels is the religiously fanatical sects and cults that wage wars against other races and followers of other religions.
So can anyone here please give me any good examples of any religiously fanatical sects and cults and characters in the fantasy genre?

Here are the only ones I've heard of and read about:

Tharn and the Drolls from The Tyrants and Kings Trilogy

Gerald Tarrant from The Coldfire Trilogy

The Children of the Light from the Wheel of Time Saga

[Cygnus]

Don't get enough of the religious fantatics in the real world?! http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif

Lucky for you Zsinj, fantasy book always seem to portray someone who is a religious nutcase. One of the guy's fighting for the crown in GRRM's books is a good example. He has that lady in red egging him on of course. I know there are more, but I'm drawing a blank.. mostly because these are the characters I don't like to read about!

[Zsinj16]

Oh, I forgot one. There's also Highseeker Hederick from The Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy.
Man!! That guy was annoying!!!

[Thom]

The nighthawks in the riftwar and the krondor serie are really good religious fanatics. They take poison before getting caught. I really liked that cult. I can't seem to remember more.

[Hobbit]

John Marco's Grand Design has interesting views on religion (sorry Zsninj, just realised you've mentioned this one!) Kate Elliott's Crown of Stars series uses a matriarchal system in its religion - quite good. Sara Douglass's The Nameless Day looks quite good too, though I haven't read it yet (in the pile!)

Hobbit

[ikonetic]

Try ICE PROPHET,FLAME UPON THE ICE,A DARKNESS ON THE ICE by WILLIAM R. FORSTCHEN.

[e-Morgana]

Sara Douglass has some pretty fanatical sects in both her series - The Axis/Wayfarer Redemption and her latest one, the Crucible. The latter is based on fanatical Christianity while the former is to do with Artor the Ploughman.

Perhaps you'd enjoy either of these.

[saintjon]

If you feel like hopping over to sci-fi there's fanatics all over the damn place in Dune.

[Rob B]

Though I have only read the first book of Kate Elliott's Crown of Stars series (King's Dragon), I would heartily concur with Ser Hobbit - here religous/political system is very good.

[ezchaos]

Two examples I can think of right off the bat are the Whitecloaks from WOT and the Inceptines from the Monarchies of God . I'm reading The Heretic Kings right now and that Himerius is a real card!