[Glorantha] Changing the Other Side

[Greg Stafford]

> From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20 at yahoo.co.uk>
Mikko:
>> > Why bother questing somewhere that you can't
>> change anything?
>
> An extremely good and practical question/answer.
>
> Until I look at the description of a standard clan
> worship ceremony, TR p 120, and discover that that's
> exactly what they do. There's another description on
> p61 that agrees.

I don't see where these are relevant to describing changing the nodes.

> Why? P119 "the regular ceremonies supercharge the
> everyday world with divine energy and make it more
> like the Other Side". And I believe I've read
> somewhere that repeating the rites is necessary to
> keep the world going.

Yes, that is correct. But what's it gotta do with changing nods, or even with
changing any Otherside?

> The whole point, it seems, is not to change anything,
> but to maintain the status quo. A bit less exciting
> for an adventurer, but rather important.

The Other Sides essentially can not be changed in any way.

NOW, one may imagine that it is changed when a person goes from the Everything
world to their god's house, and then exits into the Hero Plane in some 
specific
age. It is stated that, with Orlanth for instance, entering into the Darkness
Age reveals that Orlanth's house is cold, practically deserted; which in
earlier ages Ernalda is there, etc.

These changes are not done by the heroquesters. They are done to the 
God Plane.
These changes arfe how the god's house appears IN THE AGE THEY AE ENTERING.

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Greg Stafford

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