From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@sartar.toppoint.de)
Date: Sun 26 Jun 1994 - 22:43:10 EEST
Barron Chugg in X-RQ-ID: 4798
> This brings me to a question I have always wondered about. Gods _have_
> come into being since the Compromise (Arkat, Yelmalio, the Seven Mothers,
> Dormal, Hero cults). But when the Broken Council tried to create a god all
> heck broke loose. Somehow that attempt was "contrary to the laws of
> nature". Did the Council use some particulary evil method (aside from the
> Dragon's Egg and all) or is this just a great example of the winners
> writing the history books?
No. The different thing about Gbaji/Osentalka/Nysalor was that he became a god and did not withdraw from the mundane plane. All the other gods (Yelmalio excepted, he was around as an elf deity before dawn, but became worshipped among the hill barbarians only in the 3rd Age) were heroes who at some point of their careers left the mundane plane. See the casual remark of Ralzakark why he hasn't become a deity yet.
Some deities who regularly defy this dictum are the Praxian major spirits, but given their comparably weak Nomad God values, these may as well be minor manifestations.
The god-emperors (Godunya, Belintar, Moonson) seem to have developed yet another method to remain mundane.
The Red Goddess did the best trick: She regularly dies in the mundane plane, thereby remaining more manifest than any other deity in the time she's alife. But then she as well is rumoured to have existed in Godtime.
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-- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de
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