> I have to disagree on this point.
> 1 - Practice quests do not kill participants (Dalbryth and Avarna).
Sure they do. If the ritual opponents are tough enough. The quest
just takes place in this world and not the other. That boot in her
side might well just come from a Middle World opponent. (In theory
nothing comes back from the Otherworld you didn't take with you
anyway, but I doubt this was thought about when OiD was written so
I'm not really going to cite it as evidence).
> 2 - Any ritual that plays a major part (at least) in summoning and
> manifesting a goddess acting at the 10W6 level has to be more than
> just a practice quest.
Maybe. I think the otherworld/middle-world distinction is more
impportant than the power level. Remember that all Heortlings do
this to renew the world in sacred time. This is how they get spring.
Sure Kallyr probably has a lot of support and the power levels here
are jacked up though.
> 3 - KoS describes it as both a complicated ritual and a Quest.
OK. Not necessarily suggesting that Kallyr's 14 day Stationary
Lightbringer's Quest must be of this form. I'm certainly open to
some debate on that one. I'm just arguing that the 7-day quest she
describes in OiD is the Lightbringer sacred time ceremony.
Coincidence in their description seems to unlikely.
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