Hi,
I read with great interest the thread on the benedictions and curses
done by liturgists. I accept wholly this idea of spiritual pollution
caused by benedictions on pagans, but this raises a lot of questions
(for me):
- I hope this is not to be generalized to any kind of beneficient
sorcery praticed on non-Malkioni ? I'm thinking particularly about
healing magic done on a pagan (IMG, one of the PCs is a member of the
Purple Cross, a malkioni order created to help victims of war, and he is
working in the Holy Country under pharaonic laws of religious freedom).
- What about the Aeolian Church ? If a congregation following Saint Aeol
tries to give a benediction on a group of Urox initiates, to help them
fight the Chaos in the Queendom of Jab, does this give a nasty backslash
to everyone ? The problem is the same for an Orlanth Devotee trying to
use his magic to protect a Healer of Saint Chalana, the White Lady...
This can be reformulated as : what is the most important, rule-wise, the
being which is worshipped or the way it is worshipped, by what type of
magic, I mean ?
- What about the Lunar Empire ? Does a congregation worshipping a
sorcerous saint or a sorcerous facet of the Goddess if there is one
(can't remember, but there must be one) have problems with benedictions
on a Lunar citizen worshipping a theist part of the Goddess ?
What a Carmanian liturgist (if there is an equivalent) consider pagan,
acceptable, or spiritually polluting ?
I hope I'm not too far off topic...
Philippe