From: Nick Brooke (Nick_Brooke@compuserve.com)
Date: Fri 18 Apr 1997 - 15:55:58 EEST
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> Brithini ... consider that their own souls are dissipated at their
No, no, no: the Brithini see no difference between what happens to their
Dave Cake wrote, inter alia:
> death (and so find the fact that the souls of the pagan peoples do
> not a disturbing aberration)...
souls and what happens to the souls of pagans. They're all dissipating into
nothingness.
Sure, pagans may tell odd stories about where their souls are bound after
The Brithini know that the person who dies (be he Brithini, pagan, or
death, and can summon "spirits" which they say are the souls of their
ancestors to promulgate these stories. But this is no different from ghosts
- - the mere images of people, *not* the people themselves.
whatever) has ceased to exist, dissolved into nothingness. Saying that his
spirit or ghost has survived death (so he must have done) is like saying
that his corpse or his portrait are still there, so he must be alright.
Ghosts aren't people. Spirits aren't people. Portraits aren't people.
Corpses aren't people.
When people die, they're dead. That's what it means. The Brithini don't see
any disturbing aberrations, other than the weird self-delusion of the
pagans, who believe (against all the evidence) that "Everything's Going to
Be All Right" after they've suffered the Forever Death.
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Trent asked:
> When you cast a one-use divine spell, do you then get back your
> point of POW, or is it gone forever?
Nope, it's gone. (It was gone from the moment you sacrificed it for the
spell). One-use divine magic is expensive stuff; some suggestions on how to
make it a little more useful were in Tales #12.
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Nick
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