In a message dated 5/1/04 2:25:58 PM Mountain Daylight Time, juha.vesanto@iki.fi writes: >Andrew Janssen wrote: > >>>Here are a few things that occurred to me after my last post. Please >>>note that they are in no particular order and may need a bit of polish >>>to make complete sense. These are not official, necessarily, I'm >>>throwing them out there for opinion & comment. Thankyouverramuch. > >One comment, though. The descriptions handle the gods as if the gods >themselves had really no choice in the matter - i.e., as real-world gods. That's inevitable. Since the situation in the Dreaming is undefined, and since the gods make so few appearance in the World, the only to way to write is from the viewpoint of the religions. (Acknowledging, of course, that this viewpoint is limited.) [big snip] >So, what I'm still missing from the descriptions is how the gods >actually interact with their followers. And the politics among >the gods themselves. Can't be defined without defining more about the situation in the dreaming. >I would assume, for example, that the Cedonian >pantheon have formed a league of their own against other gods, >because they are all part of the same brand / product family. No necessarily. There are many interactions here: God to God (How well a god personally gets along with another god) Realm to Realm (How well a god's dreaming realm and organization gets along with another god's realm and organization.) Alliance (What sort of alliance of gods do the entities belong to.) God to Church (What sort of intentions does the god have for its church.) Church to Church (What are the relations between the churches of different gods.) Now the first three listed depend on the situation in the Dreaming, which has not been defined. We can only work with the last two, which are actually of lesser importance. That is to say, given the first three we might be able to work out the nature of the last two, but the natures of the last two don't say anything about the first three. Jefferson (Exquaestio) http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/rpg/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send mail to celandra-off@phoenyx.net.
