Re: ILH deities

From: Svechin_at_...
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:12:18 EDT

Morgan writes:
>By emphasizing all the different Lunar cultures, they are going to
>have very thin and scatterred descriptions of their Gods. There is
>still very little about Natha or even Tarnils for example, tow
>dieties many adventurers should be expected to follow. Whereas the
>Heortlings clans may have different sub-cults, but, basically, you
>have a ton of info about Orlanth, Vinga, Ernalda etc.

True, but then ILH 1 isn't the lunar religion book, that is in ILH2 which is pretty much written and just waiting in the production pipeline. Plenty of info on Natha and all the other many lunar cults in that.

>Not saying this is good or bad, but, you can't blame it all on space
>considerations and "wait till ILH-3". It was a conscious decision
>by the writers to emphasize breadth instead of depth.

I suppose you could argue that, but then a geopolitical and relgious overview of the Empire cannot by definition be particularly deep in 72 pages (of which 6 were index). The decision to have smaller books was an important fiscal issue for Issaries and as writers you have to go with the flow of the bottom line.

Martin Laurie