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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reason" data-source="post: 2030193" data-attributes="member: 6022">...In <a href="http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/the_enclave/index.php" target="_blank">the Enclave</a>, I've tried to make <a href="http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/the_enclave/powers/index.php" target="_blank">the Powers</a> a little more interesting than the standard godly archetypes-by-job-description. I think there's something to be said for this approach. For example:--------<a href="http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2005/01/fisher_in_darkn.php" target="_blank">The Fisher in Darkness</a>The Fisher in Darkness is the kindly old stranger who offers advice and points the way; only later do you realize him to have been a trusted keeper of your deepest secrets all along. He has mastered his own great hardships and is at peace in the quiet final seasons of a full life - a life you will never fully appreciate no how long you spend listening to his tales. The Fisher in Darkness chooses to be alone and apart; he loves to fish in the expansive darkness of the Unending Sea, but hates to spoil the mood by catching anything. The farthest lamp from shore may just be this Power, rowing out of the Farthest Sea to enjoy a warm summer night and the sight of other fisherfolk living their lives.<a href="http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2005/02/king_of_all_the.php" target="_blank">King of All the Ammand</a>He was a rough man, skilled with a blade and the old Ammander spear; the best of warriors to have stood by your side in battle, a man who had seen the high cost of blood. He could be trusted with your wife, but not with your daughters; a lover of good wine in the best of times, sufferer of bad wine in the worst of times. He had a way about him, honest with a grim sort of smile at life's injustices, thrust into leadership time and again, a reluctant bearer of the trusts that others shirked. In time he came to be the King of all the Ammand lands, united the quarrelsome lords, brought peace, prosperity and an honest rule. Yet in his heart he was always a commoner, duty placed upon him like an ill-fitting robe - and therein lay his greatness.The white-haired sages of the Black Tower claim there never was a King of all the Ammand lands, but the common Ammander folk of the Enclave know better. Any honest spearman might have taken up that crown, that duty, if the world were simply more just. There is a little of the King in all worthy commoners, a little of his decency, his rough honor, his sense of what was right and necessary. There are no Kings in the Enclave lands, and certainly no King of all the Ammand in the present time, but the man who was King watches over his descendants from deep within the Farthest. If more men followed the King's Way, the world would be a better place.-----The Powers are archetypes of a sort, but like all people you don't personally know, are subject to interpretation and projection. This works well for ascended-from-mortal gods or gods that are largely imaginary. It also allows overlap and prevents cliched associations between mortals of a given profession and a given god.Reason<a href="http://www.principiainfecta.com" target="_blank">Principia Infecta</a></blockquote>

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