At 08:10 PM 9/6/2001 -0700, you wrote:
I think the
>real answer is that ordinary Gloranthans are not able
>to rate the gods of their own cultures compared to
>those of other cultures. They will use the exact same
>sort of evidence (and be subject to the same sorts of
>physchology) as people in the real world. The
>greatest gods of their culture will be, from their
>perspective, the greatest gods around. If you can
>show them any sort of proof that your god is somehow
>more powerful than their god of that type, they will
>do one of the following
>(a) deny it (and maybe try to kill you for blasphemy)
>(b) explain it (well, sure, your god can blast me into
>a million smithereens, but can he light my garden?)
>(c) die trying to disprove it
>(d) engage in some form of syncretic worship
>(e) go crazy
>They will certainly not (IMG, at least) nod their head
>and say "Well, of course your earth goddess is better
>than ours."
(f) Engage in a Heroquest Contest, summoning as much public and private
support as possible, then risking the belief system of entire communities
as the wager to prove one philosohy or belief against another.
Such an event on this large magnitude is a future event of the Hero Wars,
not something ongoing now. The HW Campaign arc includes the heroes to be
among the people that discover how to do these big things. The parts exist
separate from each other, but when they are thrown together by future
well-meaning minimaxers I think the result will be much as described in KoS.
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