Glorantha Digest: Relativity of the Gods

Relativity of the Gods

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From: Scott Haney (scotty@olivia.cedar-rapids.ia.us)
Date: Sat 06 Jul 1996 - 18:28:04 EEST

Someone (I forget whom. Forgive me, this has been a very busy and
trying fortnight) asked if Sandy's children could, through behavior,
change him into a raving monster...or if a god's worshippers could change
their deity into something else.

I think not, although I'm certain that Sandy can rave when he wants to.
:)

A major shift in personality is no small thing, and I doubt that any gad's
worshippers could change that god simply by believing in the change.
It would take a lot more than that....

Many years ago (about 10, I think), my mother tried to take her own life
with a bottle of pills and most of a fifth of Yukon Jack (one of Minliste's
less savory gifts). She survived, more or less...she fried up her brain.
Spent a couple of years in the hospital.

There is now a strange woman roaming around in Mom's body. She's a VERY
scary person, and the family has a rule that she is not to be left alone
with anyone under the age of 14. She's almost completely different now.

What's the point of this story? It takes a MAJOR, BIG-TIME event to
alter even a person's personality, let alone a god's. I doubt that
anyone could deliberately alter a god to behave in a set way. (Note that
Ragnaglar screwed *himself* up. I have no problems with the gods
changing themselves.)

Scotty

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