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#1 zombiegleemax Jul 21, 2003 10:11:28	I was thinking about it sometime ago...since in the 3 ED,any cleric can simply ally with a philosophy he feels at heart,effectively coming in touch with a Great Beyond and in effect casting divine spells without a god's intervention,aren't the Athar right in thinking the power are frauds?I think that could be a great roleplaying tool! What do you think about it,bloods?
#2 Shemeska_the_Marauder Jul 21, 2003 12:14:04	Not quite the same thing there. For instance in Planescape 2e you could be a cleric of an abstract concept. For instance, one of the factors of the Dustmen, Oridi, was a cleric of the abstract concept of death. So was Lothar the Master of the Bones IIRC. Being devoted to an abstract concept as such did give spells by ones faith in the concept, but it was never really known if the power was being granted by some primal being beyond the powers whose portfolios resembled this belief, or if the pantheon of death dieties for instance all collectively pooled together to grant spells to this cleric who believed in their collective ideas, but not one of them in specific. The Athar on the other hand believed that all the powers were simply powerful being devoted to a concept or concepts, but they were not truly divine in any sense of the word. They were fallable and not worthy of mortal worship. The Great Unknown of the Athar was beyond them all and nigh unknowable. It enbodied all concepts, and not just a single concept such as death. The folks writing the Athar for PS3e have a good bit of material on this all, more than I could write on here, it's not my area per say. You'll be pleased I think once they release it all. *tips razorvine tiara and grins wickedly*