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From: "irdeggman" <brnetboard@BIRTHRIGHT.NET>

Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:47 AM





> Now, per your premise of the gods being immortal - they didn`t spill

their blood and create scions then.



The Greeks belived ichor flowed in the veins of the gods, not blood. I

follow that thinking myself. What seperates scions is that their blood has

a touch of ichor in it. Did the gods get hurt and bleed? Sure, but this

could not kill them, any more than Uranos killed his children by eating them

or was himself killed by being cleaved by Zeus. So I think the gods

certainly did bleed on their followers. Whether that by itself could have

made them scions I don`t need to decide. I do think they made a concious

choice to change the nature of the world by having scions. Because to

prevent the forces of evil from rising again, it wasn`t sufficient to

elevelate their champions to divinity, they needed divinity on Cerilia to

combat evil as well. This is one of the reasons that the new gods could

afford to take a more hands off role in Cerilia, because the old gods

already had representatives there.



Kenneth Gauck

kgauck@mchsi.com