> Phil Hibbs:
> >
> > The material world is the convergence of the six otherworlds (mystic,
> > sorcerous, theistic, animist, celestial, underworld).
>
> There is no mystic otherworld, the underworld is an
> intersection of the animist, theist and sorcerous ones and
> I though the celestial world was mainly a theist thing?
I rather like Phil's picture, though it strikes me as no more "true" than the standard GL picture you outline -- indeed perhaps less so, in terms of explanatory power and generality. It may roughly fit the Kralori worldview: they certainly see themselves as being the perfect balance of a host of opposed principles. They'd equate the Vithelan mystical 'Otherworld' with nihilism, broadly speaking, I think, rather than saying they don't have one.
Also I feel obliged to point out that the Lunars _do_ have a mystical otherworld, of a sort at least. (In that it's a sort of otherworld, and that crude Lunar practices contain "a sort of" mysticism, however shoddy and inferior a product. <g>) It must be very annoying for the God Learners to have people pop up after they're extinct, and refuse to entire correspond to their theories...
> Then there is the draconic otherworld...
There may or may not be. ;-)
Cheers,
Alex.
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