- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, Greg Stafford <Greg@...> wrote:
>
> Quoting bryan_thx <bethexton@...>:
>
> > Hmmm, I'm sure that at least one Fronelan philosopher has suggested
> > that each isolated piece of Fronela actually contained one piece of
> > the soul. Probably not true, but so long as people believe it, does
> > it matter if its true?
>
> If they are just chattering, it matters only to philosophers and to
> Humakti who are not allowed to lie.
>
> But if one were to attempt magic based ont his, then of course the
> truth matters a lot.
>
True, of course....but I would think that _what_ magic you would use
to find/exploit/repel/etc a piece of a god's soul would not be well
known--most likely there would not be anything like that available in
most culture's magical repetoire. So people would be improvising, and
it would take quite a bit of organized effort to determine if the
theory were wrong, or if you simply hadn't yet tried the right "thing"
(thing being spell, ritual, sacrifice, ocasion, ceremony, etc). The
amount of effort that could be expended first could be significant.
Probably more interesting would be if some such seekers found
*something* and thought it was a piece of the soul of the god of the
silver feet. Oh the possibilities!
--Bryan (who likes to have interesting things to think about far more
than he likes to have black and white answers--and Glorantha has
always been a better source of the former thant he latter!)
Received on Tue 20 Feb 2007 - 11:08:02 EET