>Chris:
>
>
>> > 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);
>
>
>LC:
>> OK, if your version is the case, how can any misapplied
>> worship last for
>> any length of time? The first time anyone makes a serious HQ to the
>> otherworld, they will find out they are wrong.
>
The thing is, generally how would you know? If you have always treated this particular spirit as a god, how can you tell that the false home you are experiencing is more hostile than the "true" one would be. To determine that you'd have to be able to visit the "true" home in the correct manner and see that it was easier - and if you could do that you wouldn't be using the misapplied worship in the first place.
Using Chris's example that, for sake of argument Inora is a spirit and you are a theistic misapplied worshipper. When you visit her home on the otherside you find it is a hostile and difficult place to visit, but that is because our mythology of Inora tells us that she lives in a hostile and difficult place (since that's what we always experience when we try and visit her...).
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