Subject: Re: of gods and monsters
From: Beregar (beregar@majik3d.org)
Date: Thu Oct 07 1999 - 19:56:45 EEST
joshua 'hook' corning wrote: > - next Namhas sees the world is stagnant and new creatures and plants > etc. do not reproduce there is no new blood to shake things up. The > world begins to loose its balance. So Namhas creates the god of nature > and so the animals and plants begin to reproduce. soon the world becomes > unbalanced again it becomes over populated. Namhas again sees the world > as unbalanced so he creates nature's brother Yorkaturr. And with him > comes death and the world balances again. animals and plants begin to > change (evolution) and adapt to this new element of survival. I'd rather not see plants and animals appear before intelligents creatures. I mean, when we get closer to the point of opening will animals be the first ones which we create? not player races? If I was a good (and remember that our Gods are played by normal mortals) I'd rather create something interestings - servants, something which gives me more power etc. Though I can understand animals and plants as source of spiritual energy.... > - new more intelligent animals (Mammals and birds) begin to come into > being these creatures start to leave behind a residue of consciousness > after their deaths. Spirits begin to haunt the world and the heavens > some fade to nothing while others join and create greater spirits. These > spirits become more and more powerful and begin to threaten the balance. > Some greater spirits choose to become flesh again and rejoin the world > this weakened them but made them independent from having to recruit new > spirits to keep up their strength. Still other greater spirits stayed in > the heavens and played with creatures of the world and tempting their > life force to them upon their deaths. Just to point out, trees and other plants have also spirits. What happened to their spirits then? > The new Gods began to tire of the world and began to threaten Namhas > and the other gods draining the older gods' strength with constant > battle. So Namhas with the last of his powers created the many species > of man. He protected them in the heavens and let them roam the world and > return as they saw fit. In their quests on the earth they gathered the > spirits to replenish the powers of Namhas and the other older gods so > that they may battle the new gods. But it was to late the new gods > struck down the palace containing the races of man and they fell to > earth. They where no longer protected from Namhas and were susceptible > to the laws that govern the world; they could reproduce and they could > die. ...This sounds familiar... > Soon the heavens began to fill with the souls of dead people. The new > gods began to collect these souls unknowingly. The spirits of man had a > greater strength then the prior spirits the gods began to change. Their > motives and thoughts became more complex and defined. Also the gods > learned that living men could send power to gods through worship. The > gods began to lessen their interest in the heavens and focused again on > the world in search of strength and to further their aims. Some peoples > remembered the old gods and gave their prayers and souls to them. The > world became balanced again and Namhas smiled upon the earth. :) I have nothing against this... - Beregar (Beregar@majik3d.org)
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