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Nyalda Never saw a KoDP game where people went with the earth goddess, so this seems like the next best thing.
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Scorpion Queen Also I noticed that the prior choice text said that Umath was "sent to his death" but this choice says Orlanth used "the new power of Death" so uh... huh? 
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Mystic Mongol posted:
Oh yeah I know the general story, I just wasn't sure of Umath "dying" meant something different that someone being afflicted with capital-D Death.
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Oh, that. So, for a while there there was enough food and land for everyone, so no one died ever. But then there was some space issues, so gold was invented to let people buy things, and your accursed Emperor Yelm decided all gold everywhere was his which ruined the entire point of an economy. Then there was a huge stupid war made even stupider by the fact that you couldn't actually kill anyone.
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Jul 12, 2018 02:13
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Magicians!
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Jul 12, 2018 17:47
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This is a setting where poetry can gently caress you up hard and you can sue ghosts into not haunting a place, don't underestimate nerds.
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Jul 12, 2018 18:49
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Jul 12, 2018 23:54
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I recognize some of those symbols but not others, and am unclear on the gods. Who do all the circle members worship exactly?
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Jul 13, 2018 20:56
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Contest
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Jul 13, 2018 22:47
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Intercede.
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I've never been this hyped for a training arc. eta: Welp, this went in the wrong thread.
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Jul 27, 2018 21:33
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In terms of timing, I remembered that in this game the clan is descended from Dara Happans, who don't track the beginning of time the same way that Orlanthi do. They have detailed genealogies of kings that stretch back to this point and history and earlier or something?
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Aug 5, 2018 21:38
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This Yamsur chap sounds like a real piece of poo poo.
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Aug 11, 2018 02:14
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What are mystics, actually?
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Sep 11, 2018 02:30
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Westerners view gods and spirits as, like, personifications of runes, right? How do theists view sorcery? Or how do spiritualists view sorcery and gods?
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Something about the God Learner concept always seemed strange. The principle seems to be that they were bad in part because they tried to treat a universe that is subjective and pluralistic in nature as if it has a single objective truth. But... if that's the case, why would they eventually be destroyed by (say) treating the gods like slaves instead of pillars of reality? Wouldn't that suggest that there is a single objective truth, i.e. that the gods are pillars of reality?
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:Trickster, being Trickster, wears an awful lot of faces. the one most people are familiar with is the classic Orlanthi model, I'm Sorry About My rear end in a top hat Son. a trickster is bonded to a clan chieftain, who takes responsibility for all the dumb rear end in a top hat poo poo the trickster does, in exchange for the good poo poo having a trickster on-hand provides. through this model, the trickster's profound and esoteric magic can be harnessed for the net good of the tribe. Why don't they just pretend/realize the cage door is illusory and set themselves free.
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Sep 25, 2018 19:58
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On the plus side, you get to mass-produce a sword that is literally the god of Death. Also the minus side but welp
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Sep 26, 2018 01:34
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Sure sounds like you could Learn a thing or two about Gods that way.
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Oct 3, 2018 02:06
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So why are Orlanthi called Rams in this age, I don't remember rams being such a big deal in their iconography in KoDP.
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Oct 7, 2018 00:31
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Metaphysically speaking, what are ghosts in this setting?
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Oct 9, 2018 12:41
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So, just the get the lay of the land here, the Orlanthi we deal with in this game are really primarily Helerings but after Heler joined the Storm Tribe so they also worship Orlanth and get wind magic, and these guys are some offshoot who are more about mammoths?
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Oct 22, 2018 14:32
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Oh, I figured the fact that rams are such a big deal to them is because they're holy to Heler so if they're identified with a Heler-animal then... But is it just so integrated now that rams are just "the storm animal and we like storms"?
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Oct 22, 2018 14:43
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I read in a few places that the Red Moon goddess was created in a "bizarre ritual" by "the seven mothers," what's the scoop here?
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Oct 31, 2018 22:38
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To get her out of your face.
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Nov 11, 2018 03:10
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This just reminds me that I have been wondering what the Zistorites' "deal" is, since they are not just God-Learners who did a particularly audacious thing apparently? Did they build a factory, or an amusement park, or both? How did they see their project and what they had created vs. how the rest of the world saw it.
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Dec 10, 2018 20:00
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Huh, other than the whole "creating a god in Time and threatening the borders of reality" part, which was probably unintended consequences, this doesn't sound that bad, nothing like loving up the concept of marriage to prove a point.
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A critical difference between Orlanthi society and most that actually exist is that I am not sure how I would go about declaring myself unbound and unprotected by the laws of any jurisdiction in which I happen to be and expect anyone to take it seriously.
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