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03-26-1998, 10:04 PM #11Pieter A de JongGuest
Bloodlines and Inheritance
At 03:18 PM 3/26/98 -0500,Mark VanderMeulen wrote:
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>It is well known that gods can reproduce (i.e. Laerme and Eloele), and
>presumably can do so without reducing their own power. Thus "godpower"
>acts more like a biological "substance" (like regular blood) rather than a
>physical "substance" subject to laws of conservation of mass and energy.
>That is, it is a product of certain living organisms, produced naturally
>as part of their normal functions. The addition of "godsblood" simply
>added that "part" or "module" of superhuman biology to normal humans,
>without fundamentally changing them in any other way. It might be more
>realistic to portray children as "growing" in bloodstrength as they reach
>maturity (and reaching "full strength" by age 14 or so).
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>Mark VanderMeulen
>vander+@pitt.edu
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All right, god power grows as a biological system. Then as god power can be
accumulated in individuals, are we sooner or later going to see more divine
ascensions a la Diesmaar; as one scion (or awnsheglien) accumulates enough
bloodline strength from this biological growth in the amount of god power in
the environment?
General question : How many people believe that accumulation of a large
enough bloodline strength would result in Divine ascension?
Pieter A de Jong
Graduate Mechanical Engineering Student
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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03-26-1998, 10:29 PM #12veryfastperson@juno.comGuest
Bloodlines and Inheritance
>General question : How many people believe that accumulation of a
>large
>enough bloodline strength would result in Divine ascension?
Count me on that list. I am a firm believer in Divine ascension through
bloodline acqumulation. (sorta gives a guy hope that he too can get into
heaven w/o formal accpetance:)
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03-26-1998, 11:32 PM #13Gary V. FossGuest
Bloodlines and Inheritance
Pieter A de Jong wrote:
> All right, god power grows as a biological system. Then as god power can be
> accumulated in individuals, are we sooner or later going to see more divine
> ascensions a la Diesmaar; as one scion (or awnsheglien) accumulates enough
> bloodline strength from this biological growth in the amount of god power in
> the environment?
> General question : How many people believe that accumulation of a large
> enough bloodline strength would result in Divine ascension?
Well, if it would the Gorgon would have probably done it by now. He's had 1,500
years.... Maybe that is his LONG term goal, but even if it is, I don't see
dozens of Cerilians getting enough power to become gods all that quick....
On the other hand, there aren't too many gods in BR. Maybe a couple of divine
ascensions would do the pantheon some good!
- -Gary
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03-27-1998, 12:09 AM #14Mark A VandermeulenGuest
Bloodlines and Inheritance
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Pieter A de Jong wrote:
> All right, god power grows as a biological system. Then as god power can be
> accumulated in individuals, are we sooner or later going to see more divine
> ascensions a la Diesmaar; as one scion (or awnsheglien) accumulates enough
> bloodline strength from this biological growth in the amount of god power in
> the environment?
> General question : How many people believe that accumulation of a large
> enough bloodline strength would result in Divine ascension?
I see such ascensions as possible, although very, very difficult. The
Serpent certainly seems to be having a go in that direction, what with his
little Serpent Cultists running around (AND casting spells successfully, I
might add). It probably won't be a problem for most PC's, as it seems
likely to require the blood ability Immortality, which I believe only
comes with Azrai's derivation (although also seems to be available to
other derivations once the Ersheigh transformation has occured). But, of
course, once a PC has successfully completed the transformation to
Awn/Ersheighlein, they become NPC's.
Mark VanderMeulen
vander+@pitt.edu
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03-27-1998, 02:18 AM #15Drake90094Guest
Bloodlines and Inheritance
god like ascension? umm..no.
ray
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03-27-1998, 06:35 PM #16Aaron SandersonGuest
Bloodlines and Inheritance
>> General question : How many people believe that accumulation of a
large
>> enough bloodline strength would result in Divine ascension?
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>Well, if it would the Gorgon would have probably done it by now. He's
had 1,500
>years.... Maybe that is his LONG term goal, but even if it is, I don't
see
>dozens of Cerilians getting enough power to become gods all that
quick....
The way I read it is that the Gorgan and most of the other major ansh.
recieved almost as much blood as did the other champions. But that for
some strange reason were not elevated to the position of diety. Given
the hints about the Cold Rider being Azari (just read the previews
section of the TSR web page) I would say that they weren't because their
god, Azari, is still around (although limited to the Shadow World).
Which gives rise to the idea that there can only be a limited number of
gods and that one must die for another to rise.
Just a few thoughts,
A.
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03-27-1998, 09:01 PM #17Anthony K.G.ShewanGuest
Bloodlines and Inheritance
Pieter A de Jong asks:
> General question : How many people believe that accumulation of a large
> enough bloodline strength would result in Divine ascension?
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I believe it. The Ascension of the new gods came with the absorption of
the destroyed gods "blood" (divine essence). Everyone (well almost) at
Deismar absorbed the same "blood" just in lower doses. So if, for example,
Haelyn ascended because he simply absorbed most of Andurias' "blood", why
couldn't someone else. How much would it take? Hopefully more than any sane
DM would be willing to allow. But then again instead of uniting Anuire or
conquering Cerilia as a campaign thread, maybe ascension to godhood would
strike someone's fancy. Not me, but you never know :)
Regards
Anthony K.G. Shewan
abcdshewan@coastnet.com
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03-28-1998, 07:16 PM #18Jonathan PicklesimerGuest
Bloodlines and Inheritance
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Aaron Sanderson wrote:
> The way I read it is that the Gorgan and most of the other major ansh.
> recieved almost as much blood as did the other champions. But that for
> some strange reason were not elevated to the position of diety. Given
> the hints about the Cold Rider being Azari (just read the previews
> section of the TSR web page) I would say that they weren't because their
> god, Azari, is still around (although limited to the Shadow World).
> Which gives rise to the idea that there can only be a limited number of
> gods and that one must die for another to rise.
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So how do you explain the ascension of both Kreisha and Belenik. If there
can only be a limited number of gods, then why did these two ascend to
replace Azrai? I don't think that it is an anomolly limited by the number
of gods. We know that Raesane was highly favored by Azrai, but not
necessarily his chapion. The same is true of Rhoube. You must also
consider that there are awnsheighlen around who were not present at
Desimaar. They have built their power through blood theft. Just because
the Gorgon now has an unreal blood strength, does that mean he has always
had a blood strength that high?
I feel that we are operating here on some assumptions taht we are unable
to verify. How do we know that the old gods did not predetermine who
their predecessors would be and that only these chosen few actaually
ascended to godhood status. The BoP discusses in the Rournil section how
Vorynn gave Rournil an amulet of an owl before the battle began. Perhaps
it was this amulet that held the essence of Vorynn and when his physical
body was destroyed, he essence became part of Rournil. We have no
evidence that the other gods did not do the same.
I feel that if there was someone running around Cerillia with a desire to
be god and a fairly decent bloodline strength that there would be several
major players, perhaps even chosen of the current gods, who would be more
than happy to send the arrogant fool to meet THE gods of Cerillia a little
sooner than he had expected, and on slightly different footing than he had
hoped.
Just my 2 GBs
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