> Which is probably quite enough from the POV of
> the HQer, of course. How would they know the
> difference?
Take a look at Heroquest page 110 under �Otherworld Travel and Safety�. Let�s suppose for a moment that Inora is really a spirit and I am her Heortling worshipper. I want to believe that she is a goddess. I travel to her otherworld home. It may be immediately obvious to me that this is a false home because, unlike Orlanth�s Halls, �such locations are troubled, subject to attacks by demons and monsters.� Even if it is not, I can test my hypothesis that she is really a goddess by traveling outside her false home, where I will suffer a -20 on my Soul Vision (so everything around me will be difficult to see, unlike when I am on the GodPlane); my Mythology of Inora will not tell me where I am; horrible spirits may attack me; etc. It will be clear to me, right up until my tragic end, that Inora was a spirit. When I don�t come back, my clan-mates will believe that Inora is a spirit.
Chris Lemens
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