Re: Planar Churches and Polygot faiths

The "map" of the outer planes is not a physical map.  Each outer plane is
infinite, they are not touching each other in any physical sense.  If you
head off in one direction, you'll go that way forever and remain in the same
plane, unless you find a portal to another plane.  these protals don't span
physical distances.  Rather, the outer planes touch each other where the
spiritual energies that created the outer plane are simialr to the spiritual
energies that created another outer plane.  And in the case of Mount
Olympus, or Ygdrasl the world tree, they touch other where the belief
patterns that created them dictate that they must touch.  This is why the
roots of Mount Olympus can touch two other outer planes.  The River Styx
touches al the lower planes and then it touches the demi-plane of shadows
and the negative energy plane.  This is a jump from the outher planes to the
inner planes.

Also, didnt' the greek or roman legends say that Uranus was torn apart and
the universe was made out of him when he was defeated?  Or was that his
wife, or was it Tiamat in the Babylonian Mythos?  I think it is the same in
both, really, Uranus and Tiamat both were torn apart and recreated into the
universe by the next generation of dieties.  Time (Chronos, Gilgamesh)
changing the pre-existing nothingness of chaos that existed before it sprang
into being.

But when it comes to role playing, split it into three pantheons, make it
one, whatever works best for your game and makes it the most exciting.

- Coyote, the Desert Dog

>My copy of Manual of the Planes (1st Edition) says that Tartarus is the
>home of evil
>powers in Exile, such as the Greater Titans who were driven out of Olympus.
>L&L also
>mentions Hades, which MotP tells me is the home of Hades. (Doe! Did I
>really look that up?
><changes fuse in brain>). As the lower end of Mount Olympus is found in
>Hades, I suppose
>that plane might also be thought of as the Greek underworld. L&L says that
>Tartarus is
>underneath Hades, but that doesn't match the "maps" of the outer planes in
>MotP.
>


>I also think that it is unlikely that a polygot priest worshiping the Greek
>gods would
>worship Uranus. L&L says that he now is in hiding and that the other Gods
>don't know he is
>still alive. His clerics are described as a secret sect. I think this means
>that he would
>be unknown to the polygot clerics of the Olympian polygot faith. L&L also
>says Uranus
>hates the Titans and tries to stop any attempt to free or reach them. I
>think that he
>would avoid involvement in either pantheon and *insist* on having his own
>clerics.
>


>I think that it could be argued that a Spelljamming cleric from a Greek
>culture would have
>two pantheons to choose from if he/she became a polygot:
>
>* The Olympian pantheon containing all the gods that won the war and now
>(mostly) live in
>Olympus or
>* The Titan pantheon containing all the Titans that lost the war and now
>live in Tartarus
>(but not their children the Lesser Titans).
>
>And that Uranus (a sky god with symbol of stars) would make a good third
>option for a
>Greek spelljamming religion.
>

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