In message <61027.84.144.198.54.1171553233.squirrel@webmail.toppoint.de> "Joerg Baumgartner" writes:
>Donald Oddy (replying to the same paragraph)
>> I don't think it does. I'd work on the basis that the only ancestors
>> you can contact are those who have in some way become immortal. It
>> may well be easier for animists to become immortal spirits than it
>> is for theists and monotheists.
>
>But then a lowly hero cult entity may sink back into the faceless mass if
>its meagre cult disbands, right? How much of a cult is needed for this
>"individual" immortality?
One shaman who knows how to contact that particular spirit. Part of their job is keeping track of all the ancestral spirits. No wonder they are crazy. In the case of Heortlings probably one bard who can tell of their deeds. For Dara Happens it's while their tax records still exist.
Of course this is only a general rule, there's lots of fun in ancestors being reborn while PCs who knew them are still alive. Then you get strange bits of memory and relationships.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/Received on Thu 15 Feb 2007 - 21:15:32 EET
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