> > Since both the God and Spirit Worlds are real, the difference
> > between Gods and Great Spirits, Daimones and Spirits can be
> > evaded by saying that theistic entities live on the God World
> > and animistic entities live in the world of spirits.
>.. except when they both inhabit the physical world, as in the case
>of the lesser entities (or at least, a subset).
In which case their place of origin (which is still the God World or the Spirit World) is still apparent.
>Is a theistic river spirit a different type of spirit to
>a animist river spirit?
There are no theistic river spirits. As for river daimones being different from river spirits, the question has already been tackled in Anaxial's Roster p203 ("The Elemental entities of each Otherworld have different abilities and attributes. However they can appear superficially similar - a normal person usually cannot distinguish between a worli, umbroli and kolati although any magician can tell them apart"). There's also mention in Thunder Rebels (p125-128) about how certain winds (Kolati winds, some Uroxi winds) are dangerous because they are spirit winds. Storm Tribe contains similar comments about Heler's clouds.
So from the Orlanthi example, some natural phenomenon are harder to control because they do not originate from the normal divine sources.
--Peter Metcalfe
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