From: Mr Robert McArthur (mcarthur@fit.qut.edu.au)
Date: Mon 06 Dec 1993 - 18:32:17 EET
Colin Watson
... on David Cheng's comments...
> >I think the gods are very aware of the concept of time.
>
> Yes, they are aware of the concept of Time (with a capital "T"; ie. mortal
> Time which was the result of the Compromise) but they have no practical
> experience of it.
>
> >Before Time, they had free action. To
> >save the world, they grudgingly accepted to give this up. I might even say
> >that all of the God Plane is bound to a timeline now too, but I'll probably
> >catch plenty of flak for it.
>
> Well, I was under the impression that in GodTime the gods have free-will
> to do anything within their power. eg. Humakt can chop you up if he feels
> like it.
...
> I assume than Divination somehow gives the caster perception into GodTime
> which allows sensible communication with the Diety. The God doesn't know
> which point in time the question is coming from, but the caster obviously
> does. The God gives a response and the caster takes it back to RealTime.
I seem to remember that, in heroquesting (what little is known or gleaned about such things :-( ) you can meet up with various "versions" of your god. So, in trying to find "your god", the god you meet may be one "in the past" who has never heard of you and you had better be able to convince them that your one of their worshippers (from the future?). I assume likewise for the future god you may meet, who knows all about you and at exactly what point you joined their delightful entourage in the afterdeath. So depending at what point you enter the god/hero plane, and what direction and distance you travel, you will meet different gods in various stages of existance./
For example, it is entirely possible to meet Kyger Litor (sp?) before the trollkin curse (if you can get past the blocks and problems Gbaji has probably set up around the event). This KL would not know of great trolls (if my memory of when they arrived is correct... ie. post-gbaji), dragonnewts dream etc etc. Since they are not the exact god (:-) who is worshipped "today", the only way for them to know these things is for a heroquester to do so - note that this gives the god (if they believe the quester!) quite an advantage in what they do/will happen. This makes questing a very powerful tool - you had better be careful exactly what and who you tell - unlike the god learners who, IMHO, manipulated the gods partly by telling them lies about what was going to happen and steering them into making the desired futures themselves. This feels a bit better than making the GLs as/more powerful than the "gods".
All IMHO of course :-)
Robert
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