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[quote]“Do we want to be in the god business?” Darg-Krallnom asked.
“The god business?” Tom asked.
“Once you start promising people life after death, you are basically in the god business.” Phaestus said.[/quote]I’ve been assuming that gods like Tiernon are in the mana parasitism industry (sucking mana from mortal followers through priests and other representatives) for the lulz, but now I have to wonder just how much mana it takes to run an eternal afterlife for one deceased follower.
Since the number of your tenants grows logarithmically, you need to maintain some kind of a M:N ratio between live mana-producing followers, and dead mana-consuming followers.
Assuming that this is how the “soul ecology” works.
Providing reincarnation certainly seems to be a more profitable business proposition. You just pay for a return ticket.
Sending “bad” souls to the Abyss to leech off the ambient mana and send it off to run the heavenly hot tubs, might be another way to achieve parity.
[quote]“So when you die? Where do you spend eternity?” Talarius asked, puzzled.[/quote]
Has Talarius been sold a bill of goods, or has he just not taken a good look at the [b][size=9]*[/size][/b] that’s included in the promise of an eternal* heaven for the faithful?[quote]“So then, Hilda is a regional saint, like yourself?” Teragdor asked.
“Yes, although a bit less regional, her region was pretty much wiped out and her legend and Illuminaries have spread out around Eton; she is also older than me and has more Illuminaries.” Stevos told the priest.[/quote]How are the D’Orcs going to get their staffing, and their local forces trained up?
Adopt Orc Illuminaries!
[quote]“Indeed!” Exador grinned. “With the Storm Lords behind us, Freehold will fall not that long after the Citadel and the book shall be ours for the taking!”[/quote]
[img]http://media.oglaf.com/comic/beginners_siege.jpg[/img]Is that ascension mana like fuel, or like a catalyst? Or does it define the size of his initial fuel tank?
Does the demon burn it later on, or does it define how much mana he can charge up from the environment?
I.e. is the demonic “leveling up” process about making one’s storage capacity greater and recharge more efficient?
Forgetting for the moment the whole “learning to wield and project power” part of things.
Then again, Abyss has also been described as essentially unbounded. Lilith and Sammael seem to only hold on to a small patch of it.
For some reason, demons captured from this particular Astlan seem to end relatively near each other, but what about the infinite parallel Astlans? Are each of them closest to a particular patch of the Abyss, and therefore their demons end up there?
[quote=The Author Guy;4707]
About the only place you (or I guess I) use the phrases is with a bagal. “Bagel and smear” Often pronounced “Bagel and schmear” soft “c” like a hard “sh”A smear is something you “smear” on your bagal. Typically some form of cream cheese, but it can be peanut butter, jelly/jan/preservative, or butter etc.
[/quote][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygEuglq_Yck[/youtube]
Coincidentally how I imagined Tizzy and Boggy at the beginning of book 1.
So what, there’s order (cold) in one direction, disorder (heat) in the other? Disorder attracts matter, instead of gravity, but the pressure from the heat pushes matter to a relatively neutral zone, where it cools to become rock plates, mountains, scenery, seating for demons? Fusion in the heat produces lots of heavy metals?
Where does all the matter and energy used on the other planes come from?
What if the “bottom” of Abyss is like a zero-point energy source, spewing pairless virtual particles which then become matter or other types of energy. And on the other side of that bottom is the mirror image, but for the negative plane?
Well, let me shut up then while you write.
Btw, Edwyrd – Ed Wood?
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/87/Ed_Wood_photo.jpg/220px-Ed_Wood_photo.jpg[/img]
So, could someone like Hesseforthalus happen to have an unfortunate shaving accident, if he pushed his luck with Sammael, or are there escalation treaties in place to make the cost too high?
[quote=The Author Guy;4684]and being Denubian[/quote]
Have Denubian Demons™ formed an union of sorts, like the D’Orcs?
Or are they essentially the local trade representatives of the Denubian Federation™, probably ascended by the Denubians themselves as a lateral promotion?
If Hesseforthalus is Smody’s inside sales rep for Denubian Food & Beverages™, how long until they knock at Doom’s World Gates with a suitcase of samples?
With all the time and space spent on getting the physics consistent, isn’t a “corrupting dagger” a bit of a cop-out as an explanation?
Corrupting how? Does it have a personality? The ability to communicate? To whisper in your sleep?
To give you a little jolt of happy-juice when you jump into a conclusion without thinking things through? But wouldn’t that be “stupid” rather than “evil”, unless the author of the artifact really took the whole banality of evil thing into heart?
Did Ruiden not notice? Did it corrupt Ruiden? Did it convince Ruiden that they were brothers as arms?
