The Invisible God being a Scam
Although I can by no means claim to be originator of this angle I did
suggest it independently to the playtest list a while back.
All the Invisible Gods offers is a social order where the general
populace is placed under the rule of Sorcerer-Priests. Very
sinister indeed ...
The Gods which are attended to by cults at least have a voice and
an inter-related culture in common with most of Glorantha. Although
this could have been woven together by HeroQuesting it still gets
my vote as being more authentic.
Although the Cults do seem to rake in quite a significant spiritual
profit for their associated Dieties at least the members of the cult
do benefit from their involvement. On the other hand this could
merely be an attempt to use the cult members as a system for the
reproduction of magical resources for the Diety.
At least corruption of the Cult hierarchies is more difficult as a
routine Divination can reveal the Dieties displeasure. Although
the issue of whether Dieties actually think in any kind of way
that can be described as mortal is a mute point at least they have
a voice and can use this to subdue or overthrow those that seek to
abuse power in their names.
But prehaps if you maintain a steady flow of worship MPs and
sacrificial POW they simply do not care what you do ...
Regards
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