From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Fri 17 Jun 1994 - 14:23:34 EEST
Devin Cutler in X-RQ-ID: 4636
> Sorry, I don't agree with this at all. I refuse to believe that a group of
> Cacodemon wqorshippers could take over a shrine of, say, Humakt, torture the
> Priest until he showed them the rituals (or simply secretly observed the
> rituals before sacking the temple), and then begin to sacrifice for Truesword
> at will for the rest of their lives.
Neither do I. If they tried to torture the priest within his own temple to make him betray his deity, I think he'd DI out of it right into Humakt's Halls and take the secrets with him, reactivating all the temple defenses lots of Sever Spirit) to take the torturers with him.
Even a Chalana Arroy priestess would rather die by DI (healing her slain or fleeing companions while consuming the mundane part of her soul) than reveal the cult secrets to Chaos.
On the other hand, Humakt doesn't take the anti-chaos checks for applicants too far - read "The Smell of a Rat" in RQ-Companion.
> Yes, the Compromise exists and restrains the gods, but IMO it doesn't turn
> them into mindless idiots who will give their powers to anyone who waves his
> hand and dances in the right fashion.
If a bunch of Ogres found a way to develop a worship of Humakt without intervention from other Humakti, I bet they'll get into contact, and build up their own temple.
If an obscure sect of Lunarized Carmanians starts to worship Invisible Orlanth, the storm god will respond. Heck, the Umathelans even worshipped Jogrampur and got a response. The worshippers shape the link to the deity.
It may not have occurred to anyone, but if a bunch of dissatisfied Solars started to worship Orlanth Wakbothi, they'd get a response over time. I wouldn't put this past post-Dwernapple Lunar Empire (to counter the temples of the Reaching Storm insiduously), either. If Solar-descended Pentans could enter fully-fledged Storm worship, why can't the Lunars in a twisted way?
> Alex writes:
> "Resurrection has strict time limits, and must be done _before_ someone
> goes to their afterlife (or not). Hence bringing back someone _after_
> this is a totally different matter."
> I fail to see the difference. The great dividing line is life vs death. Even
> if "Heaven" has not been reached, it is clear that one survives after death,
> simply because after Resurrection, one is alive after having spiritually left
> his body. The fact that there is some sort of certain existence after death
> makes the difference.
About the same as the real world occurrences of apparent death, or people fetched back after being clinically dead. The latter doesn't work either if you come way too late. Too late on Glorantha is about a week.
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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de
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