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RodOdom
Senior Scribe
USA
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 Posted - 27 Jan 2007 : 19:54:46
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Are the Faerunian gods basically like mortals, with the same passions and flaws?
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Mazrim_Taim
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 27 Jan 2007 : 20:21:05
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| I think the higher rank you get as a deity, the more you become less like a human and the more impersonal you get. You start to become the enigma of the portfolios you represent. |
And if the PCs DO win their ways through all the liches to Larloch, “he” will almost certainly be just another lich (loaded with explosive spells) set up as a decoy, with dozens of hidden liches waiting to pounce on any surviving PCs who ‘celebrate’ after they take Larloch down. As the REAL Larloch watches (magical scrying) from afar. Myself, as DM, I’d be wondering: “Such a glorious game, so many opportunities laid out before your PCs to devote your time to, and THIS fixation is the best you can come up with? Are you SURE you’re adventurers?” -Ed Greenwood
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 27 Jan 2007 : 21:15:39
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| I agree, and I mentioned this in another thread. The wider scope you can see (that is, the greater picture), the less likely you are to feel emotional about the smaller pieces of the picture, therefore the less human you are. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 28 Jan 2007 : 04:07:56
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I would agree that the higher one goes the less 'caring' they become.
As I have stated in the past here and elsewhere, I feel that the 'powers' are just the next 'level up' from us. Think of it as a giant corporation, and mortals work in the mailroom. If you need a day off, you ask the next man up the chain (a deity). You wouldn't go to the CEO, because he would neither care nor even know who you are (if you even got close enough to talk to him).
So, when we need something, we go to our immediate supervisors (the 'gods'). A DvR20 god would be like a member of the board of executives. Ao (the CEO) noticing us would be like us noticing a single bacteria.
Just my way of seeing things, take it or leave it. |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Calrond
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 28 Jan 2007 : 06:30:52
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| I agree, and to get Ao to notice you as a mortal, you'd have to do something that affects his underlings in a very direct way, like Cyric and Midnight did at the end of the Time of Troubles. |
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
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Posted - 28 Jan 2007 : 09:35:14
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Interesting topic, especially since I've been wondering the same while reading Azuth's conversation with El in "Temptation of Elminster" (Yes, I know I am far behind in terms of novels...sue me)
If the old Mystra kept a close link to El so that she would not lose the rest of her humanity it can be assumed that they are the next step up, so to speak. |
Mace's not so gentle gamer's journal My rants were harmless compared to this, beware! |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
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Posted - 28 Jan 2007 : 09:59:57
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I don't think its a case of the gods being so much like the mortals, as of the mortals seeing them like themselves. This affects the way they present themselves to mortals. Avatars would then show much more human reactions than the pure essence of the god itself would do.
That being said, I see the gods as beings and incarnations of extremes and able to at times display emotions as humans, but then in a more intense form. At these times all gods are at their most dangerous as their love and hatred is so total that a mortal can barely fathom its extent, much less keep their sanity if coming in direct contact with the divinity.
Just some morning ramblings. |
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Faraer
Great Reader
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Posted - 28 Jan 2007 : 22:41:31
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The answer as I see it, and Ed and THO if you care to confirm/deny, is somewhat. Imagine a human being, remove the barrier between conscious and unconscious, and magnify the whole thing in every direction until it extends through everything. Imagine a nation of human beings and add their minds together. Imagine what the consciousness of mountains and weather systems is like. Imagine what underlies and causes these things.
Then you have some idea of a (Realms) god. It's not distinct from human consciousness, but it's also different and much larger -- and not much like what's depicted in the Avatar novels, which is artistic licence, not meant to be taken literally. |
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