Re: Common Religions, common magic, and otherworlds

From: bryan_thx <bethexton_at_ENPWG6OF7tdHqNvHgKKr5drSNuEP5PZg4cMA8ViQADsHuONghuAqI2BiCH6GIPtyvA>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:49:30 -0000

>
Thank you again! I'll try to make this my last set of questions on this front, but you keep revealing interesting new titbits, which makes it hard to stop.
>
>
> Some heroes, some landscape entities. Think of people who became
part of
> the landscape, etc.
> Also, some entities from Otherworlds may have gotten cut off from their
> otherworld.
> Also, entities that came to power when there were no Otherworlds: i.e.,
> the Great Darkness.
> BUT, I think, relatively rare compared to entities that live in the
> Everything World, but have otherworld origins.
>
> BTW, a lot of the Landscape entities, especially the smaller ones, may
> be Everything World denizens.
>

Oh, interesting! So there could a tree/hill/vale etc. which has an everyworld 'magical' nature? That leads to some interesting possibilities :-)

Also would some 'hell' powers also grant common magic abilities? (with all the usual down sides to making such deals)

>
> Yes. And we could have skipped the whole concentration thing with just
> the Common Religion approach. Including it is what makes all the
players
> want to become "weird," in Glorantha terms, by concentrating. I
think in
> actuality is it relatively rare.
>

I now know one area in which my Wenelia game will be varying from the rules!

Thanks again for your time and insight.

Regards;

-Bryan