Re: [HOE] harrowed and faith- spoiler

["Nick Zachariasen" <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>]

> > Well, you have to look back to the Blessed for an answer here.  Their
> > Miracles all work on their Faith, and mechanically, they're channeling
> > Hunting Grounds energy through themselves just like the Doomsayers are.
> > However, the Blessed are protected by their deity from the effects of
> > channeling the energy, hence the reason they don't really have
> > any backlash.
> > Doomsayers, on the other hand, DO have backlash.  They're
> > channeling Hunting
> > Grounds energy through themselves, but there's no actual force
protecting
> > them.  They may THINK there's something there, but there really
> > isn't.  They
> > just learn a particular way of tapping the energy and they use it.
>
> True, but it's still their soul or spirit doin' the tappin', and a
> possessing manitou doesn't have access to the harrowed's soul.  The
manitou
> squashes the soul, beats it down, scares the bejeesis out of it, but
doesn't
> get to use it.

The same could be said of Sykers, in a sense.  They're just using a
different method of channeling the energy from the Hunting Grounds.  The
mechanic of Doomies using Faith to cast their Miracles could simply be
explained as the way they're taught to channel the energy.  In their minds,
it's a method of tapping into the power of "The Glow", but it's really a
method of tapping into the power of the Hunting Grounds.  It's simply a case
of mistaken source.

Nick Zachariasen
Editor Emeritus
Trojan Times