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2019-02-03, 06:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Hypothetically speaking...
Hypothetically speaking, if you killed every goblinoid at once and simultaneously announced the existence of the Dark One to every sentient creature imaginable, would it provide enough Belief, Dedication, and Souls to keep The Dark One alive during the interim period until the Snarl can be trapped again?
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2019-02-03, 11:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hypothetically speaking...
I don't think anyone but possibly the Giant has the knowledge to answer that question. And even the Giant, despite sort of being the Ao of the Stickverse, may not have defined the metaphysics of it well enough to answer your question.
After all, the divine metaphysics have not been shared with us in a very exact way, and we have little basis of speculation in such extreme cases.
That said, my guess is no.
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2019-02-03, 12:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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I would say no for two reasons. 1) it still leaves him without worship, which seems to be fairly important. And 2) there is a difference in belief and knowledge. It seems to me that belief is beyond just knowing names. If that were true, Any mortal could fairly easily get enough belief to attain godhood. Saying “By the way a god of goblins exists” doesn’t do anything if the people don’t also believe that there is The Dark One or that he is an actual god.
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2019-02-03, 06:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hypothetically speaking...
Yeah, but it's explicitly stated that Hel has been able to last the past 1100+ years on minimal worship, and while Goblins may not be QUITE as populous as something like Dwarves, they're still a major race, and The Dark One gets them all, presumably.
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2019-02-03, 08:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hypothetically speaking...
If the gods destroy the world, all the goblinoids will die anyway, so this probably wouldn't make much difference, and it's unlikely that the brief period of belief between when you told everyone about him and when everyone died would be enough for him to get much power from it.
In Hel's case, it seems from Thor's comments in 1144 that the decisive factor is that she's been getting belief (but not worship) from all the worshipers of the Northern Pantheon for thousands of years, whereas the Dark One has only been getting it from the less-numerous goblinoids for a few centuries. She also has souls from a much longer period of history and possibly from previous worlds, if that counts for anything.Spoiler
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2019-02-18, 02:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hypothetically speaking...
Another case of belief without worship is that Odin didn’t get much (or possibly any) worship last world, but he did get belief, meaning he hasn’t faded away.
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Re: Hypothetically speaking...
Very likely: no.
Thor indicating that gods meatier than The Dark One have perished between worlds would seem likely to include the possibility of a closing day feast. Thor does get the context, as he has seen literally a million variants of the world ending, even if perhaps he himself is less than perfectly certain about TDO's fate.I owe Peelee 5 Quatloos. But I am going double or nothing that Durkon will be casting 8th level spells at the big finale.
I bet Goblin_Priest 5 quatloos that Xykon does not know RC has the phylactery at this point in the tale (#1139).
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Re: Hypothetically speaking...
Gotta love hypotheticals about murdering tons of innocents for the greater good.
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2019-02-19, 04:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hypothetically speaking...
I'm going to go with "no". Mostly because I don't see the Giant presenting genocide as a viable solution to a problem.
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Re: Hypothetically speaking...
That killed evil treants, and was also the product of literal divine intervention, meaning it probably didn't kill anyone Thor didn't want it to kill. also, not what Genocide mean.s I know that's a nitpick, but genocide isn't just a synonym for mass murder, it has an actual specific meaning.
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2019-02-20, 05:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hypothetically speaking...
He's shown as a supporter of exterminating trees, including sapient ones.
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Re: Hypothetically speaking...
First of all, it’s not just Durkon that hates trees (also, he doesn’t go out of his way to destroy them.)
Second of all, he has reasons. Trees have a tendency to break into dwarven tunnels, likely damaging them. Also, before Thor talked to him in person, his justification that Thor smites them was perfectly valid.
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2019-02-20, 05:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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So? I never claimed otherwise.
Second of all, he has reasons. Trees have a tendency to break into dwarven tunnels, likely damaging them. Also, before Thor talked to him in person, his justification that Thor smites them was perfectly valid.Last edited by martianmister; 2019-02-21 at 12:27 PM.
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2019-02-25, 12:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hypothetically speaking...
Speaking of belief, it's said that it shapes the gods, right? That people shunning magic wreaked havoc on Odin. That people's belief made Thor a/not a ginger.
But... what about...
THE TREES! Everyone believes Thor hates trees. So why does he seemingly not hate trees?Attention LotR fans
Spoiler: LotRThe scouring of the Shire never happened. That's right. After reading books I, II, and III, I stopped reading when the One Ring was thrown into Mount Doom. The story ends there. Nothing worthwhile happened afterwards. Middle-Earth was saved.
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Re: Hypothetically speaking...
Not everyone. Only dwarves. The other Northeners don't. And Odin is still suffering from the effects of the beliefs of the previous world so Thor is probably still in part shaped by their belief too and we don't know that they thought he had anything against trees.
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Re: Hypothetically speaking...
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Re: Hypothetically speaking...
I would venture a guess that it's because it usually takes some serious logistics (or a great deal of like-minded people) to pull it off. Though I guess a very dedicated individual or someone with a whole lot of firepower could do it on their own.
EDIT: also I guess becuase the idea of judging people based on the group they blong to rather than individuality is maybe lawful?
EDIT EDIT: You meant "Lawful/Chaotic" axis, right?Last edited by Fyraltari; 2019-02-25 at 03:38 PM.
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Re: Hypothetically speaking...
The classic "barbarian horde" that goes ravaging across a countryside, killing and pillaging (and worse) anything that moves in its ways and leaves naught but smoking ruins and half-eaten corpses in its wake is not what usually springs to mind when one thinks "lawful" and yet they are perfectly capable of carrying out genocide.
(I know that in RL such "barbarian hordes" had as strong a sense of law as the peoples they invaded; different, yes, but as strongly enforced. I'm referring to the fantasy versions)
In short: I agree with Peelee that genocide could ping anywhere in the Lawful/Chaotic scale.
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Re: Hypothetically speaking...
I think the selective nature of genocide separates it from other mass murders on the Law/Chaos spectrum, into the side of Law.
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