Ifritus
Dreamer
Hi fellow scribes, I've another Question to put to the board.
So after the previous post about my worlds Gods and stuff... I've now decided that Yes, the Gods exist, But NO they generally do not ever interfere directly with Mortal affairs. (bar one exception)
In my WIP there is heavy emphasis on a Trinity, that is the interlinking Forces that are Chaos, Order and Balance.
there are a total of 14 proper Gods, and Two Natural forces... (or Creation Gods i suppose)
all the gods are grouped together to represent a point of this Trinity.
one trio, (i still havent came up with a title for the overall groups) concerns Life itself:
The God of Life (Chaos)
The Goddess of Death (Order)
The God of Rebirth. (Balance)
So, my question to the collective... is how would it affect people to know that there is in fact life after Death?
I'm rather certain people would still be very attached to their current lives, and still fear Death?
and the god of life in my book isnt all love and happiness. his theme is that life is chaotic, and a constant struggle, and only those that prove themselves worthy deserve to live. ( so no alms for the poor from this God)
my plan is that, when you die, your soul leaves the physical Plane, and shifts to the Spiritual Plane, where the experiences of the life you just left are melded with your previous ones, and you are free to peruse these past lives as you wish, whilst of course you are in the Spirit Plane (which generally isnt for long, in the context of Time as a spirit) It is then Up to the God of Rebirth, to ask you if you learned the lesson he wished to teach you with that life... if you cant give him a good answer, he sends you back to repeat this life (say in your previous one you were an evil tyrant who tortured puppies, so for the next life he sends you back Destined to be the victim, and if you don't come to terms with the fact that you had no right to inflict needless pain on others simply for pleasure...rinse and repeat.
in this way, it is also an opportunity for Heroes to be rewarded after their sacrifice for the greater good... Rebirth generally offers Selfless people some measure of choice in their next life (it could be that the hero wishes to live a simple happy life)
but my general quandry is how the knowledge that people are in fact Reborn would affect them? i mean in the sense that... well the current KinG capital K could've been a lowly farmer in his previous life.
In the Physical world, you have no knowledge of said previous lives...unless you are a Priest of the God of Rebirth... he allows his dedicated followers to Dream of their past lives in the physical. They also have the ability to, if they look into a persons eyes and concentrates, gain both a sense of the Entirety of their Soul, and their immediate past life.
Their mandate from their God, is to actually not use this power maliciously, but to instead help them come to terms with their lesson in that life. but of course people wouldn't trust that would they?
my first immediate thought is that this Priesthood would not be in the good books of any Leading Body i wand to put in charge? (theres a few Leading Bodies actually) The Collective Priesthoods of the Gods
the trinity of Sorcery school, Magic User Police, and an impartial council to keep the two from tearing each others heads off. then below them the general rulers of state, country, towns etc.
apologies for rambling again, this does seem to be a common theme for me when on a worldbuilding brainstorm.
So after the previous post about my worlds Gods and stuff... I've now decided that Yes, the Gods exist, But NO they generally do not ever interfere directly with Mortal affairs. (bar one exception)
In my WIP there is heavy emphasis on a Trinity, that is the interlinking Forces that are Chaos, Order and Balance.
there are a total of 14 proper Gods, and Two Natural forces... (or Creation Gods i suppose)
all the gods are grouped together to represent a point of this Trinity.
one trio, (i still havent came up with a title for the overall groups) concerns Life itself:
The God of Life (Chaos)
The Goddess of Death (Order)
The God of Rebirth. (Balance)
So, my question to the collective... is how would it affect people to know that there is in fact life after Death?
I'm rather certain people would still be very attached to their current lives, and still fear Death?
and the god of life in my book isnt all love and happiness. his theme is that life is chaotic, and a constant struggle, and only those that prove themselves worthy deserve to live. ( so no alms for the poor from this God)
my plan is that, when you die, your soul leaves the physical Plane, and shifts to the Spiritual Plane, where the experiences of the life you just left are melded with your previous ones, and you are free to peruse these past lives as you wish, whilst of course you are in the Spirit Plane (which generally isnt for long, in the context of Time as a spirit) It is then Up to the God of Rebirth, to ask you if you learned the lesson he wished to teach you with that life... if you cant give him a good answer, he sends you back to repeat this life (say in your previous one you were an evil tyrant who tortured puppies, so for the next life he sends you back Destined to be the victim, and if you don't come to terms with the fact that you had no right to inflict needless pain on others simply for pleasure...rinse and repeat.
in this way, it is also an opportunity for Heroes to be rewarded after their sacrifice for the greater good... Rebirth generally offers Selfless people some measure of choice in their next life (it could be that the hero wishes to live a simple happy life)
but my general quandry is how the knowledge that people are in fact Reborn would affect them? i mean in the sense that... well the current KinG capital K could've been a lowly farmer in his previous life.
In the Physical world, you have no knowledge of said previous lives...unless you are a Priest of the God of Rebirth... he allows his dedicated followers to Dream of their past lives in the physical. They also have the ability to, if they look into a persons eyes and concentrates, gain both a sense of the Entirety of their Soul, and their immediate past life.
Their mandate from their God, is to actually not use this power maliciously, but to instead help them come to terms with their lesson in that life. but of course people wouldn't trust that would they?
my first immediate thought is that this Priesthood would not be in the good books of any Leading Body i wand to put in charge? (theres a few Leading Bodies actually) The Collective Priesthoods of the Gods
the trinity of Sorcery school, Magic User Police, and an impartial council to keep the two from tearing each others heads off. then below them the general rulers of state, country, towns etc.
apologies for rambling again, this does seem to be a common theme for me when on a worldbuilding brainstorm.