>I don't think that's a fair assessment - at least not as a blanket
>> statement. Some are certainly swindlers, but others are doubtless
>> sincere.
>
>
>
>But I think you ignore some of them can be both!
>
Not really, no. Or at least, not at the same time they can't be. I
suspect that the word you're translating into English as 'swindle' means
something slightly different in Japanese. (A swindler is, by definition,
insincere, at least according to my dictionary). So we probably do agree
with each other after all, which is cool :)
>And swindlers can be heroquesters.........
>
It would probably be a Lanbril heroquest - or whatever the Western
equivalent might be. But, in general, yes.
>>> But such people do exist in Glorantha, and would, indeed, give an answer
>>
>>> looking much like the one above, IMO. And, should you desire complicated
>>> answers to relatively simple questions, one doesn't have to restrict
>>> oneself to talking to sorcerers - a great many theists, animists and
>>> mystics are quite capable of talking in gobbledigook and are frequently
>>> happy to do so!
>>
>>
>
>Yes, but Greg wrote only from aspect of HQ rule and he didn't say all can be
>explained from this aspect.
>
Naturally. :)
>>>> > But perhaps Zzaburi don't believe existence of Saints.....
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Not as a general rule. Or, at least, they don't call them Saints.
>>
>>
>
>Ghosts, Phantoms, False Gods, Erasanchula...?
>
Some such term if we're talking about what the sorcerers describe, say,
St Xemela, as, yes. Their own equivalent of saints (in terms of power
level, not of the sort of powers they grant) would be Founders and the like.
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