From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Mon 07 Nov 1994 - 23:40:55 EET
> Simon Hibbs asked
> >If we gathered a shaman, priest and wizard together and asked them
> >what each though a fetch, allied spirit and familiar was, I wonder
> >what answers we would get?
David Dunham:
> I see no reason you wouldn't get the answers from the rules: a part of
> myself, a gift from my god, a tool I constructed.
But as answer from whom, and to which question?
I suspect you might get the "rules" answer from each, regardless of which thing you asked them about. (Though with a great deal of added invective concerning the other two, naturally.) So for example, a shaman might describe an awakened allied spirit as warped animal totemism, and the familiar in terms similar to those Paul Reilly couched his Vessel ideas in to slide them past the (notoriously neo) shamanicist Greg...
(This breaks down for asking a priest about a familiar, of course, if they think sorcerers are godless, but them's the breaks. At least some theists would say that of some (IG and/or saint-worshipping) sorcerers, though.)
Alex.
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