Do all gods dwell in the heavens, or do some of the more demented ones like Corath set up shop in the Pits of Endless Strife?
(Souls) can be eaten, harvested for power, kept as a pet.
What is the functional difference between "eating" a soul and "harvesting" it for power?Is an "eaten" soul actually destroyed or does it simply lie around in the stomach of the eater giving it power?Do the characteristics of a soul affect the eater (i.e. does "you are what you eat" apply)?How are Souls detected? (There is no related spell presently in Layonara - is that merely a mechanical issue?)How are Souls captured? (ditto)How are Souls eaten? Does one have to be a particular race?
Do Souls have the ability to fight? Retain use of spells, etc?
Is the Death Void part of the cosmology, or just an engine artifact?
If the Pits are populated with mortal races, what is the difference between Layonara and just another Pit? Or is there one?
When the undead is reanimated with the Al'noth is it only the al'noth used in its reanimation or is something, say a soul or idea of a thing, affixed to it?
If it is the first, then the undead are, in a sense, natural beings within Layonara's cosmology.
The second is what I consider to be the more unnatural explanation--that the al'noth is used to affix something to the corpse in order to reanimate it. Let us reuse the idea of the soul, or idea of a thing, but one that has not yet reached the Thread to be recirculated to the All and Nothing. In this case Al'noth would be used to pull the soul backward, offsetting the natural pull of the Thread. In my mind this creates a much darker feel to the undead as they become tortured, suffering beings who feel the pull to the Thread, but exist on the Mortal Coil, unable to satisfy that pull due to some weaving of the al'noth--their natural progression has been ripped from them, and it is out of their hands.
This also raises questions about the Gods in the Heavens. In the first case, if the undead are created out of the All and Nothing, then it would appear that the 'good' Gods like Aeridin, Toran, and Vorax among others (and the teachings of Druids) would just be proposing the eradication of the undead because they seem unnatural to the mortal races on the Coil, even though the undead are actually just created the same way as everything else.
This is, of course, entirely possible as those on the mortal coil, and even the Gods in the Heavens, barely understand anything about the Mother, and probably even less about the existence of the All and Nothing.
n the other hand, let us look at a God like Corath, who advocates the undead and corruption. It states on lore that he believes his followers to be the elite of Layonara, so it is not too hard to imagine that he might think himself the elite among the Gods, perhaps he is even battling against the natural pull of the universe by advocating for the creation of undead as a means to show his power over what the Mother, or whatever power at be, seems to have set up. This makes his corruption far greater than just some corruption on the Mortal Coil, and instead makes it seam as though he is trying to gain a position higher than a deity. Where other Gods may strike a deal with the Mother so that they can call their fallen to them, perhaps Corath uses some means of force to rip his fallen back to him, away from the Thread's pull.
Please post any questions on the new cosmology here. I will make this a running thread and update questions/answers.3) How does Greater Sanctuary work now, as in D&D you walk the ethereal plane?This is one of the things the new cosmology and D&D differ greatly as there is no ethereal plane. You can consider it as some kind of better invisibility, you not walking another frequency for example.
Updated LORE: Greater Sanctuaryand better means it's harder to dispel (e.g. Invisibility Purge doesn't work against it).
Well not being able to dispell it would make it better...*grins* Thanks Ed.
So if I read this correctly, even though you may mechanically run invisible in plate on a horse through the middle of a group of bats, dark elves or PCs in game; reality is that any unstealthy individual moving with G sanct or Invis past creatures with exceptional hearing should be -expected- to be detected?
Since D&D cosmology went out the window, and the negative/positive energy with it
What else would you call energies drawn from the upper frequencies? Upper energy? High energy? Light magic? Just kind of a wording thing, there.