Re: Carrying subjecivity WAY too far

From: David Weihe <blerg2_at_...>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:58:17 -0800 (PST)


Greg Stafford:
> > On the subject of questors encountering other questors
> > on the HeroPlane: do they all see the same thing, or not?
>
> Please see any published HQ. Where it says they see something
> different, assume that the text is correct. If it doesn't say
> that, use common sense.

Unfortunately, the only one with mixed magic systems that comes to mind is the LBQ, itself, with theists and one talents user (i.e., Flesh Man). I once hypothesized on the GD that some of the "gods" might have originally been god-level participants from other magic systems or societies, but you shot that down.

The Boat Raising includes spiritist questors, but no details from their point of view, that I remember.

This lack of examples is probably because mixed system Questing tends to require writing it from two or more, possibly opposed, viewpoints, and giving each his own myth in full detail. Frex, who really thinks that Lhankhor Mhy or Issaries LBQers think of themselves as just Orlanth's followers, even if they do allow him to make final decisions, on most occasions? Now extend this problem to have someone from another system, entirely. Writer's Hell, I'd say. Worse than writing up Orlanth Founds The Storm Tribe from the POV of pantheon, initiate, and devotee Orlanthi (and leaving off the Ernaldan viewpoint and the viewpoint of the other Storm Tribe groups, let alone the KL viewpoint).

I can understand Jane's confusion, here, even if I am successfully deluding myself that I don't share it. (insert rueful emoticon here)



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