Re: Keeping Score (Or the Gods on Tarrin's Side)
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:57 pm
Damn i knew i needed to get that Vendari body guardfel wrote:Ayise can kill absolutely anyone on Sennadar with a thought who is native to that world.
INCLUDING the other Elder Gods. She created them, she can destroy them..
There is one problem i found with that. In book 3 Honor and Blood chapter 34 Tarrin is reading from the Book of Ages and You wrote the following.
" And so, from the nothingness of the universe, the Great Creator spun into existence the First Gods.
He gave them will and power, gave them purpose and life.
He named them Ayise and Shellar, male and female, the great complement upon which all things depend.
To Ayise, the female, he granted the power of Creation, as is the power and blessing of the woman.
To Shellar, he granted the power of Time, so that Creation would have a beginning, and alas, would also know an end, which is the purpose of all Things.
'Knowest thou that thou art My creations, art My servants. This place is thine to create as thy will, with My
blessing. I shall return anon and see what thou hast created."
so can Ayise kill Shellar or not ?
I mean besides if they are like Married or mates then i'm sure she can kill him but you know what i mean...

Yea i went back and found that in Honor and Blood <bummer>The only ones she can't kill are creatures who originated from other planes of existence and creations of the Firestaff. Once it changes them, they cease being a child of Ayise, and become a child of the Firestaff. Since she did not create them, she cannot destroy them.
I see that now...The idea that Ahiriya would somehow rebel against Ayise and stand with Niami is gallant, but completely infeasible. The INSTANT that Ahiriya disrupted the Balance, Ayise would wipe her out of existence and replace her with a new Elder God.
And because everyone knows that, even Ahiriya, it makes threatening to do it utterly moot.
Oh well it was fun to think Tarrin could get other help. <Sigh crushed again>
Wouldn't that also Cause another BreakingThe only god that can get away with openly defying Ayise is Niami, because what she represents isn't absolutely critical to the operation of the universe. The world can get along fine without magic.
Niami would also be the most dangerous god for Ayise to kill. She IS the Weave. Kill her, and the Weave ceases to exist. Needless to say, this is something that Ayise would do only as an absolute last resort, as it would result in utter chaos in the mortal world, and would also result in chaos in the pantheon as the priests of the Younger Gods lost all their powers.
That's how Niami is getting away with what she's doing. Ayise can't kill her without risking completely throwing the mortals into chaos, and risking serious disruption of the divine order. She's in a unique position, using the fact that she's expendable to the Balance but vital in other ways as a club to beat her mother over the head to get her own way
and Kill all but those beings with little connection to the web Including killing the Dragons ?
In a way it would seem that as long as the Weave survives Niami is Expendable. but if her death breaks the Weave killing all those Beings too tied to the magic of it. wouldn't that disturb the balance in it's own way?
Humm maybe not Beings were created after the Blance so i guess they don't count... unless your a Younger God. =)
Phantom