Simon Hibbs wrote:
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> The issue is, can
> you just 'make up' a convenient religious 'truth' such as Seddenya and
> make it
> so through heroquesting? I don't think you can.
...
Would you agree that you can bend, shape and join what is present? And that it is harder the more you must bend, shape and join?
The cynical explanation for Sedenya (who, as you remind us, provides no magic and therefore, by one operational definition, does not exist at all) is that she has been cobbled together by claiming a set of actually unrelated goddesses were all avatars. I suggest that claiming that some goddesses are avatars is a relatively easy change (compared to creating Nysalor or swapping two gods, for example): there is very little bending and shaping because the change requires no substantial alterations to existing mythologies, and the joins are all at the existing terminals (the births and deaths of the component goddesses).
And you don't even need a Heroquest to make up a religious 'truth' that seems convincing to those desperate to believe; I assume that the pyramid scam cults do not require them. Received on Wed 09 Aug 2006 - 22:58:16 EEST
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