ZEITGEIST the magic of mass faith

This is a necro I appreciate. The cleric in my campaign has had multiple opportunities to meet with Triegenes (near death experiences, commune spells getting boosted, etc.). The PC has been discouraged that he met a humble guy on a beach instead of the powerful god that was taught by the clergy. At one point, Nico asked, "Who are you?" and got as a response, "I'm just a guy who served the people."
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With the support of the other players in the group, the player decided to have his character go apostate as we are heading into adventure 7. He has picked up 1 level of ranger and is ignoring any magical features of his 10 levels of cleric until an indeterminate time in the future. I really appreciated the group coming together on this idea, and we will see which way the character goes. In their last face to face, Triegenes told Nico, "Hey, if you feel too betrayed by me or the clergy to continue following me, that's okay, but find something to believe." We will see how that goes.
 

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The idea that mass belief creates the magical power was apparent as far back as Fantasy Wargaming and was the idea behind Mage: the Ascension (which was itself based on 90s chaos magic).

I do kind of wonder if Bruce Galloway had some contact with Peter Carroll or any of the early chaos magicians. From what I can tell the chaos magic scene started in Yorkshire, whereas Fantasy Wargaming was written in Cambridge. Now Yorkshire's in the North, whereas Cambridge is in or near the Home Counties, which are relatively distant both physically (by British standards) and sociologically...but I am a Yank and could be way off.
 


The idea that mass belief creates the magical power was apparent as far back as Fantasy Wargaming and was the idea behind Mage: the Ascension (which was itself based on 90s chaos magic).

I do kind of wonder if Bruce Galloway had some contact with Peter Carroll or any of the early chaos magicians. From what I can tell the chaos magic scene started in Yorkshire, whereas Fantasy Wargaming was written in Cambridge. Now Yorkshire's in the North, whereas Cambridge is in or near the Home Counties, which are relatively distant both physically (by British standards) and sociologically...but I am a Yank and could be way off.
Cambridge is only 2-3 hours away from Leeds. Both have red brick universities (Leeds university was the first to have a pagan chaplain) and those circles mixed very well.
 

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