Time and Divination

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From: Thom Baguley (T.S.Baguley@open.ac.uk)
Date: Thu 02 Dec 1993 - 20:39:47 EET


>From: watson@computing-science.aberdeen.ac.uk (Colin Watson)

>This is an interesting point. If we accept that the Gods have no concept of
>mortal Time (which seems fundemental to the nature of Gloranthan Dieties) then
>divinations like the one above cannot be answered simply.

Or maybe it can. Try this:

The god is linked to all his/her initiates. In order to respond to divination the God has to zero in on the Divining Priest. This is done by follow the spell link back to the Priest. When the God does this he or she zeroes in on the appropriate time frame. The compromise means that when the God (or God aspect) does this only knowledge from that time frame is available. The God then singles out whatever is in his or her realm in that time frame e.g. for Orlanth this would be Olaf or a storm.

If your argument were correct then on casting Diviniation the Priest might get a response at any random time e.g. two seconds after birth, rather than the here and now. Similarly for any other Divine Spell.

Provided the Priest casting the spell is located in the right time frame (which he or she is) then locating the here and now is easy.

Thom

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