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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 715928" data-attributes="member: 4937">I couldn't more disagree.&nbsp; In fact, Fahrlanghn is one of my favorite invented diety period because it is so extraordinarily fitting that there be a God of Roads.&nbsp;&nbsp; In fact, one could quite easily form a sufficient cosmological triad from a God(dess) of Roads, a God(dess) of Doors, and a God(dess) of the Hearth - all of which are arguably 'created' things.&nbsp; But are not deities often creators?&nbsp; Who created the idea of a road, or of a door, or of the hearth?&nbsp; In a very very very real since, Fahrlanghn's role as the God of Roads is far more powerful and influential than his role as the protector of those that travel (upon roads).&nbsp;&nbsp; Imagine Fahrlanghn as the creator of the _idea_ of roads and all they metaphorically stand for - change and the facility of change, journey and the desire to reach a goal, distance and separation between objects, ideas, and people, all processes and all things that are not themselves delimiters but enablers especially of creating closeness or distance.&nbsp;&nbsp; That is a far more important station than the God of Travellers and a far more intellectually satisfying one.&nbsp; To be frank, I think the idea is a far more intellectually satisfying for a deity than 90% of the pantheonic dieties that man at one time worshiped and discarded upon finding monotheistic and more abstract deities to be more satisfying ideas worthy of worship.&nbsp; Zeus and his like died without much of a fight.&nbsp; And a 'God of Roads' is a far more interesting and believable area of worship than a 'God of Rangers' or a 'God of Paladins' or some other equally narrow RPG centric idea.And no, I don't expect the average person reading the text to read 'God of Roads' and go 'Wow, what a cool concept' but I am glad that Gygax never (whatever his other faults) wrote down to his audience and treated them as if they were stupid and couldn't be expected to do some deep thinking about the matter at hand.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 715928, member: 4937"] I couldn't more disagree. In fact, Fahrlanghn is one of my favorite invented diety period because it is so extraordinarily fitting that there be a God of Roads. In fact, one could quite easily form a sufficient cosmological triad from a God(dess) of Roads, a God(dess) of Doors, and a God(dess) of the Hearth - all of which are arguably 'created' things. But are not deities often creators? Who created the idea of a road, or of a door, or of the hearth? In a very very very real since, Fahrlanghn's role as the God of Roads is far more powerful and influential than his role as the protector of those that travel (upon roads). Imagine Fahrlanghn as the creator of the _idea_ of roads and all they metaphorically stand for - change and the facility of change, journey and the desire to reach a goal, distance and separation between objects, ideas, and people, all processes and all things that are not themselves delimiters but enablers especially of creating closeness or distance. That is a far more important station than the God of Travellers and a far more intellectually satisfying one. To be frank, I think the idea is a far more intellectually satisfying for a deity than 90% of the pantheonic dieties that man at one time worshiped and discarded upon finding monotheistic and more abstract deities to be more satisfying ideas worthy of worship. Zeus and his like died without much of a fight. And a 'God of Roads' is a far more interesting and believable area of worship than a 'God of Rangers' or a 'God of Paladins' or some other equally narrow RPG centric idea. And no, I don't expect the average person reading the text to read 'God of Roads' and go 'Wow, what a cool concept' but I am glad that Gygax never (whatever his other faults) wrote down to his audience and treated them as if they were stupid and couldn't be expected to do some deep thinking about the matter at hand. [/QUOTE]

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