Re: Thief saints in Seshnela from samclau_at_Ge-TIo_UYmlu5V8dzi8wb4IEsjVGgijdwjUUies4NFqsiM87m9Dr1XwNugb5kVLu2HVV on 2008-01-07 (World of Glorantha)

From: samclau_at_Ge-TIo_UYmlu5V8dzi8wb4IEsjVGgijdwjUUies4NFqsiM87m9Dr1XwNugb5kVLu2HVV
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:49:05 -0200

IMO, it'd be far more interesting to have a proper saint, say a beggar saint, who has been adopted by the criminal underclass. Give them all the magic and so on and have everyone deride them. If their magic works, there must be something to it, however wrong crime may seem in the order of things. That is the sort of open question which makes games fun (IMO) - make the thieves believe they are doing nothing wrong (in religious terms).

Have a look at St. Giles in London for that sort of connection (there is a better example but I can't place it): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2000.01.0004&query=head%3D%2329

Sam.

Mensagem original de blerg2_at_G5KxraIYP4o4T9pBWDMN3HbICeKOKuYgJQt9Dw4XsW2S2ooKz4pxzY0CQY5XC2XKxZbNlfOXPCjbBg.yahoo.invalid ---------
> My first reaction to this was, "there are no thief saints." I
figured
> they'd be gods or spirits, something that would be working against
the
> Divine Order.
>
> Then I realized such certainly would be possible.

> If nothing else, something analogous to St. Dismas, some poor
bstard
> caught up in Old Man Malkion's or Hrestol's deaths/executions. The
> *real* Node founder would have hidden his mundane identity behind
the
> more famous thief's name.

> Alternately, there could be a scout character (Viymorni "tribe",
> probably) who went bad, but not as bad as Vadel, and eventually
tried
> to steal back what the Vadeli took, first, to undo his harm.

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