Subject: An idea...
From: Atte Koivula (yorkaturr@majik3d.org)
Date: Fri Nov 19 1999 - 09:20:18 EET
I came up with an idea when I was out smoking in the -10 temperature. What if the Gods couldn't physically enter the mortal dimension of Majik without being summoned by a mortal follower with some complex ritual? I think it would nicely restrict the amount of harm the Gods could do in the world, and you all probably know the old cliché about a crazy fanatic priest calling a powerful evil spirit through some dimensional gate, and the adventurers who are sent to stop the process before it's too late... or else the world will be destroyed etc (some examples of this are Elric, and the tv-show Xena, and the movie Conan the Destroyer). Also, it would motivate the mortals to learn religious magic as they would have a chance to meet their God who would reward them for such allegiance. And if the mortal follower of another God could then banish the God to the spiritrealm once again, it would encourage religious wars etc. I mean like, the Archbishop of Evil calls me upon the world, then the priests of Dazzt find out I'm present, by noticing some great disturbance in the Force (:P), and run around trying to catch my mortal form and cast a powerful Dispel Evil on me, and they would also send a group of great paladins to rid the world of my priests so that they couldn't commit such crime again. Meanwhile, the Evil Gods would send some undead/demon army to attack all good temples on the world so that no-one could harm me etc. And the God would be in the world for as long as he/she would get banished temporarily. The Gods would still have their mundane avatars hidden in some (un)holy places around the world, but they would be just very very tough NPCs unless the Gods' spirits would control them. -- _/_ /Atte "Yorkaturr" Koivula <yorkaturr@majik3d.org>
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