Peter Metcalfe:
> The topic has been about the relative power of the deities. Since
> the power of those deities is real and not contingent on the size
> of the worshippers, grandeur of their temple etc., it is deeply
> misleading to go around ascribing the differences to worship-
> dependent factors or at least view the gods as such. For example,
> when I played an Elmali clan in KoDP and had a great temple to
> Elmal and a middling temple to Orlanth, my clansmen did _not_
> think "Elmal is a greater god than Orlanth". They might have
> said "Elmal has blessed us highly with his presence" or even
> "Orlanth is distant from us" but to imply that Elmal's strength
> is a function of his worshippers sounds dire.
The exemple is fine for a clan, but do you imply that if Elmal
worshipers outnumbered Orlanth's in all Glorantha, the relative statut
of both gods would be unaltered? Or does the statut of Orlanth make this
impossible?
End of The Glorantha Digest V8 #532