From: Alex Ferguson (abf@interzone.ucc.ie)
Date: Mon 14 Apr 1997 - 00:32:56 EEST
Joseph Troxell wonders:
> Has anyone worked up any notions of what the Hero (and/or God) Plane(s)
I think the ultimate answer it that one's preception of it is almost
entirely subjective, but that's a tad unhelpful, so I'll give some
vague generalisations, with this as a suitably big caveat.
> For example [...] would the Gods Plane look like the mundane plane,
> only the gods would have big fortresses and mansions dotting the landscape?
Something like that, except rather: it appears exactly as it's described
in the myth you're seeking to enact, which is to say, somewhat like the
mundane world, but with places and being appropriate to the Time/Age
being visited, and a more "primaeval" (or as Mike Cule might put it,
Platonic) feel to it. So if you're an Orlanthi, and you HQ back to the
Storm Age, you'll be able to see Umath's Camp on the Spike, and various
gods trundling in and out of it. If you go the same place in the
Greater Darkness, you'll see an extremely large hole.
> Or, would it appear more as a profile? Darkness
> Gods under the Earth gods under the Storm Gods under the Sky Gods?
This is likely how it appeared the the God Learners.
> What about the Heroplane? I figure the HQs of travel are something like
> being on a road.
I think that's true of all HQs, in the sense you describe, whether on
the "God Plane" or the "Hero Plane". They all consist of a number
of "stages", each of the form "Go to Place X and do thing Y". If you
do so, and succeed, then appropriate mythic/magical effect occurs;
if you fail, you likely have to abandon the quest. If you do the
"wrong" thing... Who knows what'll happen? It's a bit like getting
into an F-18 and pressing buttons at random.
> [On new Quests, for new (sub)cults ...] would I get Breath
> Air/Water by going down to the ocean, beating up the spirits and beings who
> know Breath Air/Water, and forcing them to teach it to me?
That's about it, at bottom. Or befriending them, or whatever. In
practice, though, you need a more detailed "plan" than this. The usual
method is to adapt some other myth, or some other cult's HeroPath for
the same, or some similar, magic effect. For example, some myth where
some Air god defeats one or other Merman deity (and there are several
of these, as hinted at in KoS), in the case of the Cetoi, forcing them
to become air breathing.
The danger is, if you don't have such an adapted Path, and just wander
about at semi-random -- "Sea's thataway -- Onward!" -- then you may find
yourself unwittingly entering some _other_ myth. Whereupon you might
get clobbered by something much nastier, or you didn't expect at a
given point, and which almost certainly you haven't prepared for.
Slainte,
Alex.
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