| From: | vocenoctum@****.com vocenoctum@****.com |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Spirit domains (was Re: Misc Questions) |
| Date: | Sun, 8 Oct 2000 13:38:21 -0400 |
?Shamanic tradition (or what I've heard about it) says
> everything
> has a spirit that can be contacted. So there's no place in Earth
> where a
> shaman cannot summon a spirit. If he's in a cave, he will summon the
> spirit of that cave, if he is in a forest, the spirit of that
> forest,
> etc. In the case of the cave, you might use the same stats as those
> of
> a mountain spirit, for example, but the entities themselves can't be
> put
> into neat categories.
>
I'd call it a mountain spirit myself, but I agree that teh definetions
aren't exclusive. if it's a worked mine, I might call it Hearth (Shoppe)
or maybe even field.
> I agree with NeoJudas about roads; the spirit summoned
> should
> "belong" to the enviroment sorrounding the road.
>
> Unless, of course, the road itself is famous, one that got a
> reputation of it's own. I believe Route 66 would fit in this :).
I tend to assign Spirits of Man to anything man made. If it's a small
dirt road, it might be Prarie or Field, but if it's large, or if it's
paved, I call it City/Street spirit.
As I said though, that's why I renamed them Street Spirits, because I
don't like hte idea of a City spirit being everything in the city, with
large "patches" in it's domain where other domains lie. Instead, I see it
like a spiders web of streets crisscrossing through the area. I can
"believe" a domain which wraps around other domains, but not a domain
which has large hole's in it.
Vocenoctum
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