Who are you asking? Here's some answers:
WESTERN: Orlanth doesn't really have any personality at all anyway. He's just a force of violence, control, and storm. The "Orlanth Thane" is purely an invention of his worshipers, which I suppose might be useful to them as a way to reduce this force of nature to an understandable conceit, thus making it easier to tap his power.
THEIST: Orlanth would be Orlanth no matter what _you_ think.
MYSTIC: You have it all backwards. Orlanthi _is_ the personality, not the elemental force. Proper worship could assign Darkness, or Death, or _anything_ onto Orlanth's soul, and thus he would have different powers. But he would still be the same.
DORADDI: Are you crazy? I invite you to try to imagine a world with no hypothetical situations.
>What makes these cult-less gods (Kolat, Daga, uncle-Tom-Cobbly et
>al) Gods? I mean why are they considered to be gods?
Because of their power? Any sufficiently powerful spirit becomes a god, I suppose. An insufficiently powerful spirit who yet receives worship becomes a demigod or a hero cult or something. No one thinks that Black Fang is a god, yet he was a real person just as much as Pavis. To some extent, I agree that the perception of a god's importance on the mundane plane has to do with his worshipers;
Alex:
>While the basic tenets of Western sorcery are up for grabs, what do
>people think about Malkioni attitudes to familiars?
I think the sorcerers regard them as a useful sorcerous adjunct, no more "immoral" than creating any other enchanted item. Using a wraith or the like is considered bad, though.
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