Re: [DL] They live: was Pickett in Deadlands

[Munch Wolf <munchwolf@yahoo.com>]

--- Soothsprayer <hercubadger@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Does anyone remember the Bard Trilogy? I want to say
> they were written by Michael Scott Card but the
> memory
> gets all hazy on these matters. It was a fantasy
> series revolving around the war between the Old
> Pantheon and the New Pantheon. A war of worshippers
> as
> without worshippers a god lost their power.
> 
> The catch phrase for the series was “faith breeds
> substance.” To paraphrase, enough people strongly
> believe in something/someone, they’ll bring it into
> being for as long as they continue to believe. A
> case
> in point mentioned in the books involve the Old
> Pantheon god of war. He was a human general who led
> his people in revolt against these Elder Creature
> things who held humanity in slavery. During one of
> the
> major battles this bloke got himself killed. His
> soldiers and people prayed to him that night for
> guidance and wisdom for the battles to come. Without
> him, they thought, all was lost. So the next dawn
> there was a new figure leading the armies and a new
> god had been born. 
> 
> Perhaps this theory could explain how you could
> “reinvent” historic figures for your own games. Yes,
> the famous general did go down in a screaming heap
> during the battle. Except enough people mention
> him/her in their thoughts in deeds for them to come
> back at least for the time being. They’re not
> Harrowed, they’re something other. 
> 
> Perhaps there’s a psychic threshold that once
> reached
> opens a breach in the Hunting Grounds. This breach
> can
> be used by creatures than those who mean ill to
> mankind.
> 
> A point to note however, the creature (for lack of a
> better term of reference) would come back as people
> remembered them, not how they actually may have
> been.
> The eye of the beholder and all that.


Sounds like Living Legends from RVC 1

-MW

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