That is ideal, but perhaps not feasible. I don't have HQ2 yet, but I understand that the core rune set is quite limited. And, the God Learners and the Vithelan had rather little influence on each other.
> Inventing a brand new rune doesn't seem appropriate
> to me and I've never heard of a deity having half a rune before.
Don't read that too litereally. I wrote half as a convenient
shorthand for a narrower, more limited form of the rune, like
Yinkin's Cat rune is a limited Beast rune and Heat is a partial
Fire rune.
>
> > * I'm wary of the Storm Tribe vs Chaos analogy, but this makes
> > me more convinced that Vith's "Cosmic Order" is not Law, but
> > something else, less compelling and more moral perhaps.
>
> In which case it's integral to the Pantheon and is not something that
> should be specifically had by each and every deity within that pantheon.
Why not? Runes are the preferred way to describe the gods, and this is the primary difference between gods and antigods.
> > Actually, mind-blowing awesomeness is not what I'm after,
> > so there must be something lacking in my presentation. See
> > above rambling on what I'm trying to express with "Cosmic
> > Order".
>
> What's wrong with the Infinity Rune? Vith isn't about teaching Cosmic
> Order but maintaining consciousness with the ineffable.
Which I think fits "Cosmic Order" better than Infinity. That said, you may have a point that the High Gods, as remote, unreachable, Celestial Court type of gods perhaps all have Infinity. In which case I'd swap out Mastery for Vith.
> >> Another way of indicating the difference between the Parloth and the
> >> Adpara (the Good Guys and the Bad Guys) would be to have Good Runes and
> >> Bad Runes. Thus Illusion is a Bad Rune being held by Avanapdur. Light
> >> is a Good Rune and thus one who holds it is by definition a Good God and
> >> so forth
>
> > But that won't quite work, as there are runes which are used
> > by both Gods and Antigods.
>
> I didn't say all runes should be split into Good Runes and Bad Runes. I
> just pointed out that the Parloth (Gods) would not have some runes and
> the Adpara (Antigods) another.
That's what I thought you said. I just think that there is a very sharp division, and that it can be represented with the presence or absence of a particular rune.
/Nils W
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