From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Tue 16 Aug 1994 - 09:10:32 EEST
Sandy:
> But in any case, if the wizard leads services for the
> Invisible God, I'd give him a POW gain roll every Sacred Time.
Hrm. Why?
> Well, yeah, but she's still sort of underground, too. I mean,
> look around, you don't SEE her, right? Obviously she's lost some
> touch with the upper world. But at least she's not DEAD anymore
> (except during the winter), and she can answer prayers and bring
> plants back to life in the spring.
If one asks the Praxians about this, one will get an answer which characterises Ernalda (and most other Earth types), as still buried deep in the Inner Earth.
Ask a Sartarite, and he'll tell you Ernalda is Alive and Well and living in that thar temple yonder; granted you can't see her, but then, you can't see the other gods, can you?
Amid gripes about the lack of moral fibre among some of his non-Danish
ancestors:
> I see no reason that the wizards, warriors, and farmers of
> the Malkioni would be any different. If the wizards or warriors were
> dissatisfied with the current ruling class, they might rebel, but you
> bet their leaders would be disgruntled nobles, promising the wizards
> a better deal than the current administration.
Yah. I agree with just-about-all of the assorted hand-waving people have done on this subject. I suspect the only reason it comes up at all is that one might get the impression from some Western material that the main loyalty of a Westerner is to his caste: this isn't remotely true, in my view. People are loyal to their own superiors and inferiors, their own country/ province/town, their own sect,. etc. Others of your own caste aren't your brothers in oppression, they're the heretical bastards over the valley, or those no-account types from Lord Bigwig's estate, who doubtless mean you no good, or worst of all, a competitor for some upcoming juicy post.
> [The Only Old One]
> I don't think that the wielder of
> the office inherits his predecessors' memories, because that makes
> him too much like the Red Emperor and the Pharaoh.
Didn't we decide the Red Emp. _didn't_ do this sort of stuff, at least in recent times? Or does this occur in the enthronement ritual, or something?
Alex.
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