Re: Heroplane from different viewpoints

From: Gavain Sweetman <gavain.sweetman_at_...>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:23:16 +0000 (GMT)


Surely it depends on who's quest it is. If it is the Orlanth beats a spiritist and an essence user up a mountain. Then the scene is set; up a mountain they go. What they see on their way up is dependent on their belief system. The Orlanthi sees the umbroli trying to blow him off the mountain, whilst the spiritist has to deal with the mountain fox spirit biting at his heels and the essense user (does make him sound like some guy on class A drugs :) will be humbled by the majesty of the mountain itself.

Interacion will be easy because they are all locked into the framework of the original quest. The all see and climb the same mountain just their interest in the landscape and entities on the mountain have a different perspective.


On the subject of questors encountering other questors on the HeroPlane: do they all see the same thing, or not?

Suppose Our Hero faces a contest in which he and two opponents must compete to beat a certain hazard. Racing over a mountain pass, say. He's a theist, the other two are a spiritist and an essence user.

Do they all see the same thing? If not, in what way does it tend to differ?

My tentative thoughts would be that each sees what they expect to see, which will not be the same. The essence user will see a more abstract world than the other two, for instance. They might even all see the challenge as something different - maybe the Pentan spiritist is seeing it as a horse race, the Orlanthi sees the icy mountain pass, and the essence user is crossing a desert. The basic theme is the same, the details of the story differ.

If they have a conversation, will this difference of perception come out, or will the words be "translated" in some way so that they make sense in both versions of the story?

Or am I looking at this completely wrong?             



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