Re: Political intrigue

[Wright Frazier <khelek@ns1.cioe.com>]

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> ====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?++++

*nod* I have to agree entirely.  Scrogg should just be a subsect of Orus that calls orus
a different name.  Also the alternate spell groups for different subsects is a good idea.
What have both dogma and magic set them apart.


As for elven priests, I agree again with Jamie... Either no gods, or let'em be priests.
I personaly would prefer geleian elves at the very least have the ability to be priests.
Elves make up a large percentage(the dominant one) of Geleia, and the gods would be
idiots to refuse their worship, less of course they just can't.  

> ====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.

*nod* the terisium thing is why I always viewed it as the same coin.  If divine magic is
truely different than elemental, then there needs to be some fundamental changes to some
things.  Namely magic item creation, and the effects of terisium on priests or mages.

Wright