Croosover (2)

[Darkstar]

James Ray wrote:

> I wouls like to answer your question with a question of my own: why would
> the gods already established in Aebrynnis let an outsider involve itself in
> their ongoing struggle for power? Unlike other AD&D game worlds, Aebrynnis
> has a history of politically powerful churches, who share and compete for
> influence with the lands other leaders. Given the significant power
> preexisting religions have, such as investiture, Realm Spells, and all the
> rest of them, how is a priest from Toril ever going to be able to compete
> with the established religions? Without a bloodline, he can't even perform
> a create holding to start his firsst temple. Why would any Regent risk the
> wrath of his current church-leaders to allow him to operate, anyway?

A single priest with no access to spells from his god would not get far
in creating a new religion in Aebrynnis. First he would not have a
bloodline so would have not be able to cast realm spells, create
holdings etc. He would also have a difficult time gaining followers as
most people would demand some proof of the gods existance and without
access to new spells the priest would have a lot of trouble convincing
people his god even exists.
The established religions would also fight off any attempt to take over
their power, so the priest would have no chance in the civilized areas.
And in the wilder lands there is always the problem of Awnsheghlien and
other monsters eating the priest (well the monsters would eat him
anyway, not sure about the Gorgon's breakfast menu).
Of course the gods themselves might be very upset with some upstart
follower trying to take over their territory and send a few of their
followers to deal with him.


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[David Sean Brown]

Actually, I think this sort of works the other way around. Using the
"crystal sphere" sort of thing, each god has to have a presence withing a
sphere in order for his/her followers to gain spells greater than 2nd
level. This means that should a cleric suddenly appear in Elinie from the
forgotten realms, they wouldn't be able to pray for new spells, unless
they happen to worship the Dwarven gods, who apperar to be absolutely
everywhere :)

Sean


On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Wrb41977 wrote:

> Okay, awhile back, I posted something asking about what would happen if
> wizards, from say, Toril were to end up on Aebrynnis. Now I'd like to knwo
> what would happen if priests were to mysteriously end up say near Elinie.
> Would they still be able to cast spells? Or would their powers fade?
> I happen to think that if they were to end up there, they still could cast
> their spells, and pray for new ones, as their precense would allow for their
> gods to gain connections to Cerilia.
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[E Gray]

- -----Original Message-----
From: David Sean Brown
To: birthright@MPGN.COM
Date: Friday, January 02, 1998 4:21 AM
Subject: Re: [BIRTHRIGHT] - Croosover (2)


>Actually, I think this sort of works the other way around. Using the
>"crystal sphere" sort of thing, each god has to have a presence withing a
>sphere in order for his/her followers to gain spells greater than 2nd
>level. This means that should a cleric suddenly appear in Elinie from the
>forgotten realms, they wouldn't be able to pray for new spells, unless
>they happen to worship the Dwarven gods, who apperar to be absolutely
>everywhere :)


IIRC, A Gate spell will bring a power into a Crystal Sphere, though I
can't recall the specifics, merely dimly recalling this data from a perusal
of the Spelljammer books..

[Trizt]

On 02-Jan-98, Darkstar (hoss@box.net.au) wrote about Re: [BIRTHRIGHT] -
Croosover (2):
- ->James Ray wrote:

- ->> I wouls like to answer your question with a question of my own: why would
- ->> the gods already established in Aebrynnis let an outsider involve itself
in
- ->> their ongoing struggle for power?
- ->A single priest with no access to spells from his god would not get far
- ->in creating a new religion in Aebrynnis.
- ->Of course the gods themselves might be very upset with some upstart
- ->follower trying to take over their territory and send a few of their
- ->followers to deal with him.

Oki, removed most of the previous posts as I was thinking of something else,
but still similare.

What about a priest of Corellon Larethian would come to a elven and start to
preach, how outlaghed wouldn't that prieast be?


//Trizt of Ward^RITE

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