[Torg] Spirit Axiom and Cross-Cosm Mythos?

[Kansas Jim]

Jeff Clough wrote:

> 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?

Close - as Smooge said it would be a contradiction for Foo-Follower to
perform a miracle in Bar-World. If he's in a Bar-World pure zone then he
would have to spend a P-Point to put up a reality bubble to perform a
miracle. But if he's in a dominant zone of Bar-World, he just has to
avoid rolling a 1 like usual.

> 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?

In the original rulebook they give us the concept of an "originating
cosm" for every mythoi which says that the many versions of a mythos
found throughout the cosmverse may all be reflections of that
originating mythos, so in the end they're all worshiping the same
entity. So we can say that Christians from Core Earth and Christians
from Terra are all following the same mythos and there won't be any
spiritual conflict if a CE priest performs a miracle for a Terran
follower.

My own view rejects the concept of the originating cosm (and the
original rulebook was careful to say that it might work that way,
not that it does) and says that each reality creates its own. If
there are enough similarities then the spiritual conflict is reduced
to a minimum and it's still safe for the CE priest and the Terran
follower to pray for a miracle together.

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Kansas Jim, Torg guru (ksjim (at) sdc (dot) org)
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