Re: Political intrigue

[Shyryly Yshl <shyryly@geocities.com>]

Wright Frazier wrote:

> Then what about cooking up an alternate list of spell groups for Scrogg.  I personally
> find Scrogg in bad taste and unlikeable(hince why I never use them when GM'ing).  I
> think if however the overal role of them being the priests of 'pleasure' was put
> more forward, that a lot of folks would have less of a problem with'em and use'em
> more.  Currently, from the notes I've been making this past week, Scrogg is just
> not gonna be a popular religion on Geleia.  It will be somewhat acceptable in
> the more debaucherous and declining cities(southham and possibly Liston), but it
> will not in any means be a major force.

====Here here.  In the modern world, I think we do worship/idolize 'sex' in general but I
don't know of any popular cult solely dedicated to its worship (models?).  It's just a
game flavor thing, but on the whole I don't personally like the taste it has, though I've
interacted/RPed with it a few times in character.  Seems like a wild subsect of Orus would
cover the matter nicely without requiring a new god, you know?  It's like having a new
sect of Isisites that only heal bruises...but damn, they're good with bruises.  So some
priest of Orus researched new spells...hey, great, nice new four groups, but do you gotta
have a separate deity for it?++++

> I remember several times it being said that Anubis was the major religion of
> Geleia(this was before Chambria blew Ormandi to hell).
>
> Also, this brings up another question I have.  Why shouldn't elves be
> worshipers of gods?  Do the gods just ignore the elves?  Also why can't
> elves be priests?  Do the god's energy/magic giving machines demand that
> the target have a soul inorder to store the power?  Also since this is
> very much an elven dominated land, Mysticism(its the only elven religion
> currently) is gonna be big.  I know in the original Sylvan Isles campaign,
> elves COULD be priests, even after the change.  Do we want to continue
> that trend?  Or make it the same old same old.
>

=====Again, here here.  At some point (I don't recall exactly when) playing Tamboura it
because very clear that there is no reason in the current campaign that every single
bloody elf in existance should not be either an agnostic or a nomad.  There's -no point-
to elven god-worship.  They don't give us an afterlife, they don't deign to give us spells
(Tor being the exception as the drills are non-magical [Tor, the
lightningwieldinghypocriticalsonuvabitch]), so screw 'em.  We've got sprits, though, so
nomads suit us nicely.  Hence the conversion she made (very well I might add...spending
her days of late with her rondo far from any adventuring types, where it's safe).

Get it straight, basically.  Either pitch the elf-soulless bit (though I like it), or
pretty much accept that they should all be nomads.  Not a lot of room for option here.  As
for soul-ed elves?  Why not.  If you're redoing the race distribution for Geleia, just
keep a chunk of  the chart in front for redelves, and the standard 15 slot for soulless
rest-of-jaern elves.

+++++

> Also, I have a couple of questions about the nature of magic.  Where does elemental
> magic come from?  Same for divine magic.  I've been under the impression that
> they were opposite sides of the same coin.
>
> Wright
>

====Again, bravo.  Terisium (to my experience) affects priests the same way as mages.  My
philosophy on the matter to date just tells me the gods are a middle-man for 'different'
mages.  The standard mage buys his magic wholesale, while the priest goes through some
grubby distributor (e.g. a god) that makes him perform a song-and-dance and fill out a lot
of paperwork to get the goods.  Same good in the end, though, since the distributor
apparently gets items from the same wholesaler as the mages.  And this also explains the
12-level-limit for priests...the distributor skims off the top.  Hey, I'd be a god too i I
kept all the energy that was useful for the 13-16 rank spells and just doled out the rest
to those who kissed my rump.

If the above is -not- the case, discontinue the terisium hit on priests.  Problem solved.
If the gods are just jacked up elemental mage-dealerships, so be it as it stands.

(in an odd mood today)
-Jamie