Re: ILH Deities

From: Trotsky <TTrotsky_at_...>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 09:01:26 +0100

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>>Martin:
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>>>I was a bit surprised that a few of the important,
>>>dominant deities from GIHW were lacking. Why was Oria, Oslira,
>>>Entekos, Dendara, and Lodril left out? I thought they were important
>>>deities with 100.000+ worshippers in the Empire?
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>They certainly are important, but the ILH homeland spreads were in no way
>made to be all inclusive. Future suppliments will cover these areas in more
>detail. A subcult of Lodril is mentioned in the DH section under the farmer
>category. The categories used are adventurer ones but a boatman or river
>pirate would be in Oria,
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A typo for Oslira, right?

>Dendera is the obedient wife and is not really good adventurer fodder.
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OTOH. they're pretty useful for adventurers' followers, although these are understandably of lower priority and don't belong in ILH1.

>To show ALL the dieties a DH might worship would
>require a book (funny that, we are working on one!) and the same applies for
>all the other cultures.
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Yup, space limitations are just such a bugger, aren't they? 'Wait for ILH3' may not be the most helpful answer ever, but its pretty well unavoidable when the books can only be 72 pages long (and for sound reasons, should anyone think I'm complaining).

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Trotsky
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