Re: Initiates & Devotees

From: t_m_ellis <tim_at_...>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:58:27 -0000

> Part of the problem lies in the use of the word improvisation for
> what initates do and what devotees do to use a new feat. IMO
> improvisation, for initiates, is asking for a specific magical
> effect instead of relying on their affinity for certain actions.
> Devotees don't create something new but use a previously
> unpracticed feat drawn from their god's actions in the myth. They
> do not really *improvise*, they use something that their god did in
> myth (and I quite like Wulf's mythology role to remember it).
>

Maybe we should use "inspiration" for how devotees "discover" "new" feats...

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