Re: Re: Kingdom of War speculations

From: Light Castle <light_castle_at_...>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 01:41:28 -0400

I thought it might be something like that. The more flexibility in the pantheon, the easier it is to insert yourself into it. But it also makes it harder to fix if they succeed. If you've got nothing but the Invisible God, then if the Lunars get into the mix, the Red Goddess becomes the face of the Invisible God made manifest, or the new prophet, or something else that rewrites the whole thing in one go. Basically, you raise the stakes. Because if they do muck about on a smaller scale and replace a saint, you can still assert control from higher up, diminsh the importance of the comprimised saint, etc. (If I put myself in your ritual, that also leaves me open to being controlled by your control of the ritual.)

And now this conversation is drifting off into Digest territory methinks. :)

LC

On 17 May 2004 at 2:14, bethexton_at_... wrote:  

> The Lunars have shown disturbing eagerness and ability in
> experimental heroquesting. The most dramatic of course was when they
> kept the Pharoah from coming back. However they seem to work their
> way into the magic of all sorts of lands....the Star Bear in Sylilia,
> the sudden royal marriage, quick conception, and royal death in
> Tarsh, or the introduction of the red rites into Ernaldan practice in
> Tarsh (I've made my quota of mangled summaries this week, someone
> else more savant can explain this one), and there are more.
> Basically at least as often at conquering a place, they subvert it
> from the top through funky magical ritual and heroquesting.
>
> So, if you massively trim back the diversity of rituals you do, put
> in huge redundancy (everyone is doing the same), and work very
> stictly to keep them pure, the odds of the lunars being able to pull
> a quick one on you is reduced. Mind you, Safelstar is still a long
> way from any substantial lunar influence, so while it is possible
> that there is some long term prophecy that is being responded to, I
> doubt that is the reason behind it.....but I'm certainly neither sure
> of it, nor beyond planting it as an idea for players to fret about.
>
> --Bryan
>
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