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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 402543" data-attributes="member: 4720">RangerWickett, I agree with you.  The discussion has been very Christian-centric, and the "Holy Text" bits were written as if by Western scribes, which may have skewed perceptions a bit.But we've also thrown other cosmological angles in, and I never made any illusions about the fact that my Psions were getting power from within themselves.  "to where the Light of the Flowering rebounded from the Light in their own souls" implied (to me) that the two types of power there were different in kind.  The Flowering may or may not have come from a God or gods, but the Divine Light in the monks' souls was intended to be exactly that.  The spark of divinity that lies in every being.  It's reaction to the incompatible energies in the "wave-front" of the Flowering simply drew attention to it, but it was an independent source of power.Now, how people would interpret this is WIDE open.  Buddhist monks would probably come to the conclusion as I stated it, that they have found their divine selves through their meditations.  Christian monks who reach the same place through their disciplines would probably interpret it as the monks in my little story did, as the place where their God touched their souls.Which one of them is right?  My intentions while writing were skewed to the one side, but ultimately, I don't know.  Do I care?  Only in so far as I think the Eastern monks' hypothesis is the more aesthetically pleasing.  But they both have their own poetry.Would a Christian psionic monk and a Buddhist psionic monk argue about it?  Historically speaking, probably not.  Historically, these guys have gotten along pretty well.  It's the clergy who stir things up.Actually, as an aside, this may be the first time I felt Psionics fit a "fantasy" setting other than as a replacement for Sorcerors.Now what about a Norse guy hanging out in Iceland at this time?  Let's say he's getting powers from Odin.  This Odin could be a god in his own right, equal to the Christian god, albeit shorter on worship.  Or he could simply be an aspect of a greater Divinity, of which the Christian god is also an aspect.  Or he could be a demon masquerading as Odin, who died during the Blockage of magic because his worship declined so far.  I'm just throwing ideas out there.  I'm open to the interpretation of any DM who'd be willing to run this as a game.  Or lack of interpretation, as the case may be.But your point is taken, perhaps I'll expand my horizons beyond the Christians a bit.  We have more or less been on a track of "Christianity...Christianity...Christianity...oh yeah, there's some psions over in Asia...Christianity...Christianity.I wonder what's up in deepest Africa?  Among the Aborigines of Australia?  Over in the Americas?  Not that they'd be likely to end up going by that name in this history.Hmmm...  If I manage to get something thrown together on Rangers (probably not until tomorrow evening now) they're not going to be particularly Christian.  In fact, if the ideas floating around my head gel, they may even be the leading edge of the first disaster Seasong's new-and-improved Reformed Church would have to face after getting their Popes squared away.  btw- I never use Evil Rangers, and I don't intend to start now.Brain percolating...</blockquote>

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