Re: Becoming a Devotee

From: ian_hammond_cooper <ian_hammond_cooper_at_...>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:17:02 -0000


Me:
>1.5%- 5% devotees

Alex Ferguson wrote:
> This seems to assume that Devotee is a "profession" unto itself
(as opposed to a personal initiatory status).

No not my point. My point is that being a devotee is an attribute possessed by a specialists, not that it is a profession.

>The ultimate logic of this reasoning is that (frex) devotees of
Humakt couldn't possibly be weaponthanes, but have to be "magical specialists", which I think no-one would seriously propose.

No, this is not 'the ulitmate logic of this reasoning'. A Humakti weaponthane is a specialist (he requires support by the clan) so he can be a devotee. IMO a Humakti weaponthane is a magical specialist. Remember that full time warriors are only a small percentage of the clana about 1% for weaponthanes, backed by some full-time warriors, so this is not going to impact the 1-5% range much.

Ian Cooper

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