Making Gods Vanish

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_sierratel.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 09:39:15 -0700


> > Can you make a god vanish? Yes, I think so. But be
> > careful. Gods are normally supported by many mythologies other
> > than their own. Everyone now knows that the Dara Happan Yelm is
> > "the same" as the Orlanthi Evil Emperor. Whether this was once
> > true or not is irrelevant - now it is... Every time the
> > Orlanthi ceremonies call for their gods to protect them from
> > the Emperor, they are also reasserting Yelm's existence.

From my understanding: no, you can't by normal Heroquesting. At least not ones that existed (in whatever form) at the Dawn, when the Master CD of Gods was burned by Arachne Solara.

You can make people forget about their god, or renounce him, or whatever, and his manifestations in the Middle World can wane until there isn't much of anything left, but if someone finds this poor forlorn godlet and heroquests to discover what he was, and convince his people to follow this god, then the god can be restored to full Glory.

Error Deleting God
Cannot Delete Orlanth: Access is denied
Make sure the God Plane is not full or write-protected and that the God is not currently in use.

               [OK]

Even the Lunars don't have System Level access to the Gloranthan OS! (Much as they'd like us to believe that they do). Even the God Learners merely muddled the User Interface (The Goddess Swap, frex), rather than actually making changes to the gods.

I *think* (from discussions with Greg, he can override me if he wants) that even messing about on the God/Spirit/Logical Plane can't grant "System Access" to all of Glorantha. So even if a Cultural Hero went and whacked Big Windy on the God Plane, only his Culture would gain the "benefit" (if you can call it that...) of having no air.

RR
It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this has done what he has done.
- Richelieu

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