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Re: The Crystal itself as a "religion"
« Reply #30 on: March 21, 2008, 03:11:54 pm »
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Re: The Crystal itself as a "religion"
« Reply #31 on: March 21, 2008, 03:19:57 pm »
LOL Earl

I feel bad cuz its kinda offensive...but its so true and hilarious i was dying on my floor laughing when i saw that pic.

@Zan read all the posts here.  Someone made a very good point and showed that Laanx and Talad did NOT create everything!
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Re: The Crystal itself as a "religion"
« Reply #32 on: March 21, 2008, 03:47:41 pm »
 :'(

i hadn't even posted here.....   :-\
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Re: The Crystal itself as a "religion"
« Reply #33 on: March 21, 2008, 03:50:01 pm »
Quote from: neko kyouran on March 21, 2008, 03:47:41 pm
:'(

i hadn't even posted here.....   :-\

Yes but you're a mod, a very good one, how could I leave you out of shooting down lame threads?
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Re: The Crystal itself as a "religion"
« Reply #34 on: March 21, 2008, 04:57:00 pm »
Worshipping any 'god' besides Talad, Laanx, Dakkru, or Xiosia is, by official Octarchal Law, illegal. Go ahead and worship something else, but do not complain if your character gets persecuted. If I had my way, DMs would have full power to wander in as a guard and arrest any fool who tried this.
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Re: The Crystal itself as a "religion"
« Reply #35 on: March 21, 2008, 08:41:44 pm »
What's a DM?

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Re: The Crystal itself as a "religion"
« Reply #36 on: March 21, 2008, 08:42:57 pm »
Dungeon master.

D&D terminology.
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Re: The Crystal itself as a "religion"
« Reply #37 on: March 21, 2008, 09:00:42 pm »
Drunken Master -- Kung Fu term (applied to most of the D&D DM's too)
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Re: The Crystal itself as a "religion"
« Reply #38 on: March 21, 2008, 11:39:40 pm »
District Manager, Corporate term.

Listbard I am glad you understand the demeanor I approach the forums and Irc with.  \\o//
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Re: The Crystal itself as a "religion"
« Reply #39 on: March 21, 2008, 11:50:59 pm »
Quote from: shorty13 on March 21, 2008, 03:19:57 pm
LOL Earl

I feel bad cuz its kinda offensive...but its so true and hilarious i was dying on my floor laughing when i saw that pic.

@Zan read all the posts here.  Someone made a very good point and showed that Laanx and Talad did NOT create everything!
The point that everyone has been trying to make here is that you as a player know that, but your character doesn't! So Zan's statements are valid.
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Re: The Crystal itself as a "religion"
« Reply #40 on: March 23, 2008, 12:36:08 pm »
Just curious. We worship gods. We have books but we DON'T write down what happened??

I mean Talad in the stories interacts with the races in Yliakum and he didn't explain who he was and some of the basics? And people worshipping Talad didn't find the basics important enough to write it down? The stories say the kran know they are created by Talad but don't think that is important?

I mean come on even the bible has had changes over the 2000 years it has been around but things like the creationtale are pretty much the same.
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Re: The Crystal itself as a "religion"
« Reply #41 on: March 23, 2008, 12:54:15 pm »
I think settings is working very hard to write down more history of the gods in book form.

Either way, I'll repeat myself.

Talad created the Kran. He used energy from the Azure Sun to do so, just like we use fire to cook our food. Then who do we praise for the good food? The cook or the fire?

Shorty, Talad and Laanx did not create everything but the Crystal created nothing, it only serves as a source of energy. ;) Yliakum's society is advanced enough to know what the Crystal is and it has real gods that are much more suited for worship. In that context it doesn't make sense to worship an inanimate object like a bunch of ignorant cavepeople.
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Re: The Crystal itself as a "religion"
« Reply #42 on: March 24, 2008, 01:19:09 am »
hmm well back on topic. I have to agree with Zan.

There are real gods there. Olympian in style so I am really leaning to giving tribute to several gods chosing one depending on the situation. Worshipping the crystal like people worshipped the sun once doesn't really seem to fit in with that.
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Re: The Crystal itself as a "religion"
« Reply #43 on: March 24, 2008, 03:05:25 am »
Well... If we've got a crazy character, can he or she (maybe it) worship something ridiculous?
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Re: The Crystal itself as a "religion"
« Reply #44 on: March 24, 2008, 03:12:27 am »
Raa, being as you are a somewhat crazy player, I expect no less from your characters.
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