Michael Cule wrote:
>
> The book says 'you learn the secret, you become one with the god and
> vanish' but I don't think that's what it means exactly. What I think it
> means is 'you learn the secret, you use the secret successfully, you
> become one with the god and vanish'. Reasons I think this are twofold.
>
I would suspect you'd disappear, at least from a PC standpoint.
Think of it as 'joining the force' as it were. I treat folks that are trying to get that deep into the god's ways as pretty close to being mad. If nothing else,
You get to be Obiwan or Yoda in the movies ante mortem.
> Firstly for Maximum Game Fun it's a lot more interesting if the
> Incredibly Aged Patron who has spent the last umpteen years learning the
> Inner Secret of Orlanth can leave it to the end of his life to try to
> unify his soul with that of the God. Imagine the scene as he lies dying
> in a Hero's arms and calls out for Orlanth to take him....
Yoda... but its good for a bit of pathos.
> Secondly, the fact that the Secret can be abused (the book only mentions
> on p167 serious consequences when someone fails in their attempt to
> overwhelm the god: shouldn't there be serious consequences when someone
> succeeds too. Have there been successful usurpations recorded? When
> exactly?) means to me that it doesn't totally overwhelm the person
> learning it and they can partially or temporarily become the god.
> Remember if KoS when Argrath is referred to by one of the epithets of
> Orlanth?
I think as soon as you learn the secret, you are gone. Poof. At that point. No sticking around to incrase the skill, no. And I don't seem to see the word 'usurp' in the writeup. I am not sure why you have that interpretation of the act.
...when you get to put that on your sheet (as it were) you get your blinding momoent of insight and become one with the godhead.
But that's just my opinon, of course.
Jeff
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