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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 8825854" data-attributes="member: 20741">The rule in 1st ed -- which was carried through in to 2nd and 3rd ed, was that the Disks allowed Goldmoon to pray -- there are conflicting explanations as to whether she received her Holy Symbol of Mishakal from the Disks, or from the Avatar of Mishakal via the Statue of Mishakal in the Temple. What the rules say is that the Holy Symbol of Mishakal could clone itself when its wearer invested a new cleric; the engraving representing one of the Good Old Gods would change on the holy symbol, depending on the primary god that cleric followed when invested. Elistan receives his symbol from Goldmoon, but his engraving is for Paladine, not Mishakal.Because of the spell component rules in 1st ed, it was not possible to perform clerical magic without that holy symbol -- in DL, the holy symbol itself was a magic item that could clone itself and spread virally.&nbsp; But there had to be one to start. Goldmoon's symbol was &quot;Patient Zero&quot; in South-Western Ansalon.That was the operative part of the game rules that applied to the Good Gods. It never applied to the Evil Gods -- and we don't have any details on how it operated regarding Neutral Gods -- a plot hole that many DL novel writers used over the years.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 8825854, member: 20741"] The rule in 1st ed -- which was carried through in to 2nd and 3rd ed, was that the [I]Disks[/I] allowed Goldmoon to pray -- there are conflicting explanations as to whether she received her [I]Holy Symbol of Mishakal[/I] from the [I]Disks[/I], or from the Avatar of Mishakal via the Statue of Mishakal in the Temple. What the rules say is that the [I]Holy[/I] [I]Symbol of Mishakal[/I] could clone itself when its wearer invested a new cleric; the engraving representing one of the Good Old Gods would change on the [I]holy symbol[/I], depending on the primary god that cleric followed when invested. Elistan receives his symbol from Goldmoon, but his engraving is for Paladine, not Mishakal. Because of the spell component rules in 1st ed, it was not possible to perform clerical magic without that [I]holy symbol[/I] -- in DL, the [I]holy symbol[/I] itself was a magic item that could clone itself and spread virally. But there had to be one to start. Goldmoon's symbol was "Patient Zero" in South-Western Ansalon. That was the operative part of the game rules that applied to the Good Gods. It never applied to the Evil Gods -- and we don't have any details on how it operated regarding Neutral Gods -- a plot hole that many DL novel writers used over the years. [/QUOTE]

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