Subject: Re: Ancients
From: Taneli Tikka (ttikka@icon.fi)
Date: Mon Oct 11 1999 - 21:51:37 EEST
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Beregar wrote: > Of course some of the Ancients probably died in battle, but others left > for some reason or another. > > to make things more clear: > > - The Ancients = God like spirits who became flesh (power = lesser God) > both before and after battle since they didn't get power > from other spirits. > - New Gods = God like spirits who started a battle between them and > the Elder Gods, they also remained in heavens and kept > growing in power (power = lesser God - God. > - Ancients/Ancient beings = New Gods, the Ancients, the Elder Gods, > ancient creatures (dragons). Whats the idea behind making ancients born after the creation so poweful, only lesser gods and gods, no demigods? and all their power is supposed to come from variety of spirits? theyll need a huge pile of them then :).. The whole spirit idea sounds a bit like the creatus would be without their own will - or that they would lack any real soul and just be a collection, a whirlwind of weak souls.. without any deeper essence. And arent atleast older gods supposed to be vastly powerful souls with very personal perspectives and ambitions.. just that a god made up of near-mindless plant spirits isnt that appealing :).. why wont we go for something more creative than just addind weak souls to own collectives. This brings us back to magic - if magic builds the world - then the building block of reality is magic. Everything - EVERYTHING in existence is created from particles of magical essence. magic isnt something unnatural - magic is the foundation of natural - everything. instead of collecting weak spirits the ancients could have drained the very pieces his opponent was made of - and re-molded his own reality into more powerful frames. other option would be absorbin the essence of life from them - but life, or patters of life are just built up from the same stuff - magical essence. it builds up everything, living and dead, all the energies, all the things that cannot be seen or explained. And magic only is something namhas and the gods made up as they created the world. they found the ultimate base building block the magical essence of everything - and then constructed the whole creation from that same stuff.. molding it to other patterns and colorful forms. Also spirits would have spirit-patterns made of magical-base-essence.. but true born gods or those fully transformed into deities (ie. all regonized gods) would be build from not magical essence but some ethereal-eternal essence out-of-this-world.. that is the case for their true form, not for their incarnations which of course are made up like the world is create - based on patterns of magical essence, forming matter, flesh, energies, life, mind and spirit.. yes EVEN time. -m
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