[Torg] Spirit Axiom and Cross-Cosm Mythos?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Jeff Clough <jeff at chaosphere.com> wrote:
> I'm hoping someone can give me an "official" answer to this question that
> has been bugging me.
>
> I understand that we have a Spirit axiom.  I also understand that when this
> axiom gets high enough the rules start talking about things like the
> "dominant mythos" and "enemy mythos".  My interpretation of this, if I can
> give an example, is that if the dominant mythos in a high Spirit cosm is a
> religion called "Foo", and there's another high Spirit cosm with a dominant
> religion of "Bar", people from Foo-World can't perform miracles in Bar-World
> and vice versa, at least not without spending a possibility.  Am I
> understanding this right?

Mostly. In a pure zone a person would need to spend a possibility to
set up a reality bubble that allowed them to cast the other miracle.
In a dominant zone it would probably be a 1 case but is dependant on
the cosm. My house rule was that in a realm like Living Land,
worshipping Rec Pakken would be a 4 case without changes in the
original world laws... worshipping the Bug God (I can't remember the
name) would be a 1 case. However this is a house rule not a hard-fast
one.

> My second question is if you have two worlds with the same dominant mythos,
> can the entities worshiped (presumably gods) go back and forth between these
> cosms?  Do they exist in both?  Are these mythoses (mythi?) truly the same
> or are we talking about fundamentally different religions, because they are
> in different cosms, even if all observable aspects are identical?

Religions are the weakest area of Torg mainly because it was a very
sensitive subject of the game and people didn't broach it. How I ran
it was that each religion was a reflection.. so each was a separate
version and you could and would have fights between St Patrick of
CyberIreland and St Patrick of CoreEarth and StPatrick of Gaea for
while they were the same name they were different in how they viewed
things

> Hopefully my questions make enough sense for you to sort out what I'm
> asking.  I'm not feeling too well today.
>
> Jeff
>
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