Re: Great Priest

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 10:44:46 +1200


Nils:

Me>> Storm Bull started off in the Theistic world because he was
>> one of Genert's friends and Genert is the Great Priest (just
>> as Pamalt was the Great Shaman, Zzabur the Great Sorcerer).

>Is Genert confirmed as the Great Priest? I ask because in the
>Vithelan myths, Ombardaru the Priest is vague enough to be
>Genert or Yelm or yet someone else.

Greg was talking to me about the Four Magicians and that Genert was one of them long before I saw the myth of Vith against the Three.

>> The Genertan Pantheon was killed during the Gods War and the
>> surviving Praxians only managed to keep alive by communing
>> with the shades of those killed. In other words they became
>> animists.

>So that's true for Eiritha as well?

Probably. She's been buried under the Earth.

>We know there is an Eiritha
>shaman tradition, but is Eiritha's cult at the Paps animist
>or theist?

I would consider it a relic of the old days and allow Eirithans to get theistic magic there if they go in deep enough.

--Peter Metcalfe

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