On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Raheer wrote:

> But remember, these gods are actually leftovers from the preDeismaar
> period who stayed out of that conflict. The Deismaar era gods were
> ridiculously involved with their worshippers. Witness Deismaar
> itself, if nothing else!

Then why would their reaction to Deismaar not be, "See, we were right to
have stayed out of the whole business! To get too involved courts our own
destruction, so the most sensible plan is to be just as hands-off as these
new gods have wisely decided to be."

> How, if they offered nothing more than that which was provided by the
> gods of the new order (spells and turning ability) would people have
> resurrected the worship of the old gods?

Perhaps because when Azrai was defeated, he went from offering more to
offering even less, and the people who didn`t go to Deismaar never heard
about the existence of the new gods. ISTR the people of Djapar don`t
believe Basaia died at Deismaar, and consider heretics any visiting
Khinasi merchants who dare express that opinion publicly, for example by
referring to Avani as the goddess of the sun.

> and by our nature, humans are a race predisposed to take the easy
> route when it is available.

Quite; all of nature is like that. Since I think it would be easier to
research the old ways than the new ones -- the old ones probably never
completely died out, but more became seen as subservient to Azrai; whereas
missionaries of the new ones might not have reached Aduria, or not been
believed if they did -- I am inclined to think the old religions survived.

IMC I have a completely different interpretation of Deismaar and the gods,
but I have tried not to let that get involved here.


Ryan Caveney

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