Allied Spirits

From: Steven E. Barnes <akuma_at_best.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 22:38:17 -0800

> From: Argrath_at_aol.com
>
> This is, IMHO, backwards. The allied spirit has a direct ISDN link to his
> god, and rats on the priest or lord at the first sign of slippage from the
> List of Things to Do and Not Do. Moreover, the priest/lord has NO way to
> compel the ally to do anything, except a Command spell (and you may need LOTS
> of Extension). Pain and death are meaningless to the ally (as if any priest
> or lord would have the blasphemous gall to try to torture an envoy of his
> god). And, while all allies should have personality, many of them also have
> Attitude. I know of a Eurmali allied spirit who is a good case in point.

I consider the allied spirit to be an personification of the subconciousness. With this interpretation, your ally will rat on you, only if you subconsciouslly want to be punished. This is one possible explaination of why Illuminates can ignore cult restrictions.

Even without this interpretation, the relation with an ally is not advisario
> From: Nick Fortune <nick_at_nymar.demon.co.uk>
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 19:03:55 GMT
> Subject: Dragons & Illumination
>
> I muse:
> >Are dragons and dragonewts, with their apparent indifference to
> > chaos, >Illuminated?
>
> Sandy enlightens:
> > Technically no. But since they can't be illuminated, who cares?
>
> It's just that we touched on levels of illumination. So I was wondering if
> all dragon kind were automatically Illuminates, but on such a high level of
> illimination that humans can't tell. It would explain why they can't be
> illuminated, since they already are illuminated.
>
> > Take the following
> > Riddle-like study (which, in my campaign, rewards comprehension with
> > an illumination check:
>
> Oh good! I like these.
>
> > Two guides can take you through the forest. You know one of
> > them is an ogre. You also know that one of them always lies. The
> > first guide says, "The ogre is the liar." The second guide says,
> > "The human is the liar." Who is the ogre?
>
> Lesse now... If the first one is lying, then he can't be the ogre, otherwise
> he'd be telling the truth. If the second one is lying, he cannot be the
> human, otherwise he would be telling the truth. So, regardless of which one
> is the liar, the second guide must be the ogre.
>
> Roll on Sacred Time...
>

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