From: paul@phyast.pitt.edu
Date: Sun 11 Jul 1993 - 21:02:29 EEST
This is similar to many of the ideas we use in our own campaign, but with
some differences. We use the term 'heart' pretty much like it is used
in C.J. Cherryh's Rusalka/Chernevog series, i.e. it is a part of yourself
that you can put into something else (like a moonrock, etc.) rather than
a "heart of moonrock". What you put it into has a back reaction on your
own personality, and of course your personality and magic tradition affects
what you might put it into.
We use these terms for an other self that is kept in you. Genius is
for philosophical types, guardian angel is for religious.
>shadow
For Arkat Kingtroll we literally use the shadow. It gets very black as the
Power vested in it increases...
>Once formed the divine magician's other
>self is called a vessel.
Have you seen the current Paul & Mike draft? It went to OJ a week or
two ago, in it we use the term "Vessel". (Just warning you so that you don't
think we are stealing your terms.) We use "Vessel" for sorcerors, though.
This seems to us more appropriate than using it for divine magicians, I think
they have more of a link, or river, than a vessel.
> The divine magician forms his other self into a pseudo-god, an
>The divine magician forms his other self into a pseudo-god, an
In our model we instead say that the priestess actually gives part of
herself up into her goddess, forming a greater whole. Think of a Venn
diagram:
__________________
Actually there would be many Initiates, cult spirits, etc. Temples
/ \
/ \
/ \
/ DEITY \
| |
| O - cult | SPIRIT / GOD PLANE
| spirit |
| |
| /\ <--other self |
| | | |
------------------------------------
|__| <-- priestess
MUNDANE PLANE
would also bridge the gap between the two planes.
I will try to get more stuff out on this but I have been quite busy
working on my thesis. It's nice to see the parallelism with Loren's thinking;
the more people who independently agree with the basic picture, the better
chance it has of being 'right'.
More later,
Paul
- Paul
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