| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Bira) |
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| Subject: | magic resistance tests |
| Date: | Tue Sep 4 00:30:01 2001 |
Damion Milliken <dam01@***.edu.au> wrote:
> Jane VR writes:
>
> > So does an apartment block have one Hearth spirit for the whole building or
> > one per apartment?
>
> I think that any given bit of "Hearth" domain, no matter how large or how
> small, has an infinite number of hearth spirits. My reasoning for this is
> that each and every shaman present in the domain can summon his own hearth
> spirit, regardless of whether the other shamans have or not.
You can also link that to the "domestic deities" myth that some ancient
religions/cultures have. To a shaman, a hearth spirit is the god of a specific
"home", be it an apartment, a shopping mall or an office building. It inhabits
that "home" and can exert its power over it.
So when two shamans summon a hearth spirit in the same place, they're actually
summoning two manifestations of the same domestic deity. Bear in mind that shamanic
summoning is not based on imperious orders ("I command thee, o spirit...") like
hermetic conjuring. The shaman has to ask, persuade or even beg the spirit for its
services, which are seen as favors, and "bound" nature spirits are more
free-willed than elementals.
So, the spirit of a certain hearth can "oppose itself" if two enemies
summon it at the same time, but it will probably avoid doing anything to harm its domain
or the people who inhabit it (if it's well treated by them - otherwise, it might not
care). If a shaman ends up forcing a spirit to do this, he may earn reprimands from his
totem later on.
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