From: Bryan J. Maloney (jacobus@sonata.cc.purdue.edu)
Date: Fri 12 Aug 1994 - 10:28:05 EEST
I think that part of the Compromise was that gods who stayed dead after the start of time are SUPPOSED to stay dead. When you try to revive a dead god after the start of time, you end up having to invoke Chaos, with all that entails, to do it.
Ossentalka became Gbaji.
Harana Ilor became the Red Goddess. (Harana Ilor was the old Goddess of
Harmony, wasn't she--the one who stumbled in her dance in the Spike?)
I would seriously shudder to think of what would happen should Genert be revived. You think Dorastor is a chaos-hole--imagine what would happen if the soul of an entire continent became chaos tainted...
As for a deity like Basmol, I think he was killed within Time. Different rules would apply in such a case. The problem is that he would have to be resurrected, which would first require that one get hold of all the pieces of his body and heal them together. Then you have to track down the spirit of Basmol and put it back into the body.
This is probably why Arkat split up the pieces of Gbaji and scattered them. Although Ossentalka had died out of Time, Gbaji died within time, and there was risk of his revival if he were to be assembled.
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