>> >A misuse of great mystic powers caused his annihilation.
>>
>> IMHO basicaly annihilation by chaos. One of the risks of mysticism.
>
>That's what an Orlanthi (say) might say happened, but it's not
>a More Correct explantion than the indigenous one.
That's true, but it's not necesserily false either.
>> >He simply dispersed, being dead, and not having his soul trapped by
>> >pagan demons.
>>
>> Dispersed is ok, inthat the substance from which it was formed still exists,
>> albeit in a different form.
>
>Not in Brithini or Mostali belief, for example. For them, the Self
>is completely destroyed at death, and anything left is just some
>untidy psychic residue, or whatever.
Residue - precisely. Chaos leaves nothing, annihilating part of the world and weakiening the universe as a result. The Brithini do not as far as I know believe that when they die the universe is depleted. In modern terms chaos does not conserve energy, or mass, or momentum.
Re Solace :
>Which is _also_ beyond the material or divine worlds. Thus the Brithini
>can poo-poo it freely, and as far as I know it's not possible to
>'prove' that someone went to Solace, even by "conventional" HQ.
We've been through this debate before. If Solace is beyond the material and divine worlds then how come Saints can grant blessings? Solace may be beyond contact by pagans, but it obviously isn't beyond contact by True Believers.
Simon Hibbs
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