[Glorantha] Re: Glorantha Digest, Vol 12, Issue 357

From: Greg Stafford <greg>
Date: Fri Aug 18 20:00:21 2006

YGWV
> From: Trotsky <TTrotsky@blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: [Glorantha] Re: Glorantha Digest, Vol 12, Issue 355

> Graham:
>
>> So what happens when the first cheesecake is created? Assuming no one has
>> ever made a cheesecake before, what happens when I make one?
>> Possible answers :
>>
>> 1. There's a finite number of gods(3) who already exist. If one of them
>> isn't for cheesecake, tough, cheesecake is impossible.
>> 2. There's a (near) infinite number of gods, only a few of which will ever
>> be worshipped in Glorantha. Cheesecake is possible, so the god must exist
>> and be discoverable.
>> 3. A mortal can make a small change to the other side, adding a myth in
>> which a child of biscuit god and cheese god turns out to be cheesecake god.
>> 4. Creating cheesecake instantly creates a brand new cheesecake god, who
>> has no connection to anything else.
>>
> I'd have thought that the most likely answer would be that you would
> become the Cheesecake Hero, with, eventually, your own Hero Cult (of
> Ernalda, or whomever).

Good call, Jamie. I had intended to include this option in my previous reply.

> If cheesecake becomes a truly powerful concept,
> and you accrue worshippers,

And establish your place in the God World, and have the method to teach your magic to others?

> you could eventually become a god yourself,
> much like many of the Lunar Immortals.

Note that the Lunar Gods are in many ways more like subcults than they are totally innovative powers.

> So you are 'creating' a god, but
> not a whole mythic back-story to go with it; you become the god, and
> your story becomes the myth.

What you?ve done is establish the new way to link to this power. You provide access to it.

> Nobody claims, AFAIK, that Irripi Ontor
> (for example) is a reincarnation of some previous deity - he *is* new,
> in a way that Sedenya isn't.

He is a specialization of something within her vast, vast range of powers. He is the ?white moon,? the intellectual/mental power of the Goddess Sedenya. What he does in specific is provide his type of access to the powers.

> What you can't do is make up some Golden
> Age myths of the perfect cheesecake, and how there was a god who made
> the first one, etc. - because they didn't. Well, OK, you can make them
> up, but you won't get feats and affinities from them.

Correct.

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Greg Stafford

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