> Brithini ... consider that their own souls are dissipated at their
> death (and so find the fact that the souls of the pagan peoples do
> not a disturbing aberration)...
No, no, no: the Brithini see no difference between what happens to their souls and what happens to the souls of pagans. They're all dissipating into nothingness.
Sure, pagans may tell odd stories about where their souls are bound after death, and can summon "spirits" which they say are the souls of their ancestors to promulgate these stories. But this is no different from ghosts - - the mere images of people, *not* the people themselves.
The Brithini know that the person who dies (be he Brithini, pagan, or whatever) has ceased to exist, dissolved into nothingness. Saying that his spirit or ghost has survived death (so he must have done) is like saying that his corpse or his portrait are still there, so he must be alright.
Ghosts aren't people. Spirits aren't people. Portraits aren't people. Corpses aren't people.
When people die, they're dead. That's what it means. The Brithini don't see any disturbing aberrations, other than the weird self-delusion of the pagans, who believe (against all the evidence) that "Everything's Going to Be All Right" after they've suffered the Forever Death.
> When you cast a one-use divine spell, do you then get back your
> point of POW, or is it gone forever?
Nope, it's gone. (It was gone from the moment you sacrificed it for the spell). One-use divine magic is expensive stuff; some suggestions on how to make it a little more useful were in Tales #12.
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