At 08:27 AM 4/23/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Arkat was able to be a sequential fanatic. First he
>believed X absolutely, then Y absolutely, without any hint that he
previously believed X absolutely.
Wrong assumption here.
Of course there were hints, consequences and so on.
>Although cynics might say that he believed nothing in particular,
You will never find me saying this.
>I think he is far more interesting and credible if he was The True
Believer in each instance.
As I believe he was.
>Chalking this ability up to some form of illumination
>or mystical insight feels right,
One or the other, though those are not necessarily the same things.
>but I can't see the
>mechanism. It is almost like he moved horizontally
>between two truths, neither of which were terribly
>transcendant.
I am hoping it will be more clear in the revised Hero Wars mystic rules.
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