So Hildegaard claims the first sphere as her holy realm so the Dragon can’t touch it, provided the inhabitants accept her, then the Dragon can no longer touch it? And in so doing she ascends beyond the power of the other gods?
I do dislike proclamations that it’s painfully obvious and that you’re being willfully blind when it pretty clearly is only painfully obvious if you already know the answer. It is a sure way to undermine attempts to build faith, rather than to aid them.
She also has a huge hubris problem, that a different faith is less valued by her god. Hubris, the arrogance to declare you understand a god’s mind is always one of the worst sins in myth. Whether Jen passes or fails, says nothing about this test of the witch’s faith and humility. They are separate tests even if happening in the same trial. It doesn’t matter what the witch thinks, it matters what the god does.
So it’s the entry-level power for a Hildegaard worshiper. If she were Astraelos, I’d expect the answer to be “surrender and die, then be reborn”. But she isn’t.
So that leaves something on-theme for Hildegaard. Summon a magic weapon? Probably not; I don’t remember Hilda ever using that trick. Weapon proficiency? No obvious way for that to tie off this fight nicely. So I’m assuming it’s “shut up and stop infighting, you’re being idiots”.
Except that’s what Jen is already doing? I think? So I actually don’t know where this is going. I expect it’ll be good, though.
Just punch her. Hilda did that way back with Magda. (She also happened to be wearing sap gloves). It’s simple, it’s a way to deal with caster/priest types, and it’s something a beginner could do.
And thus we see the difference between a player and a player-character (well, NPC in this case). The player has difficulty getting into the head-space that the NPC obviously operates, because then all of this would be *real* and she has to actually *worship*. Yes, the goddess may have said otherwise. At the moment, it would appear that the goddess may have been incorrect about that.
I see people who dispute and I hear that the resolution to such things is to build bridges to understanding.
I fear the lesson being taught here is to burn the bridge.
So Hildegaard claims the first sphere as her holy realm so the Dragon can’t touch it, provided the inhabitants accept her, then the Dragon can no longer touch it? And in so doing she ascends beyond the power of the other gods?
Its about the church and its hierarchy and power.And not the goodness,the goddess is totally irrelevant.
I do dislike proclamations that it’s painfully obvious and that you’re being willfully blind when it pretty clearly is only painfully obvious if you already know the answer. It is a sure way to undermine attempts to build faith, rather than to aid them.
She also has a huge hubris problem, that a different faith is less valued by her god. Hubris, the arrogance to declare you understand a god’s mind is always one of the worst sins in myth. Whether Jen passes or fails, says nothing about this test of the witch’s faith and humility. They are separate tests even if happening in the same trial. It doesn’t matter what the witch thinks, it matters what the god does.
Ego blinds you far more than a plank in your eye.
So it’s the entry-level power for a Hildegaard worshiper. If she were Astraelos, I’d expect the answer to be “surrender and die, then be reborn”. But she isn’t.
So that leaves something on-theme for Hildegaard. Summon a magic weapon? Probably not; I don’t remember Hilda ever using that trick. Weapon proficiency? No obvious way for that to tie off this fight nicely. So I’m assuming it’s “shut up and stop infighting, you’re being idiots”.
Except that’s what Jen is already doing? I think? So I actually don’t know where this is going. I expect it’ll be good, though.
Just punch her. Hilda did that way back with Magda. (She also happened to be wearing sap gloves). It’s simple, it’s a way to deal with caster/priest types, and it’s something a beginner could do.
And, frankly, she needs a humbling punch in the face.
And thus we see the difference between a player and a player-character (well, NPC in this case). The player has difficulty getting into the head-space that the NPC obviously operates, because then all of this would be *real* and she has to actually *worship*. Yes, the goddess may have said otherwise. At the moment, it would appear that the goddess may have been incorrect about that.