lanyara wrote:
- Does Gwen dislike super holy auras? (pure white)
- Does donating to beggars eventually give your char a super holy aura?
-Does Gwen then dislike those who do extreme charity because they will end up with a holy aura?
-Does Gwen dislike super holy auras? (pure white)
Given Gwen loves everyone, a part of her personality, I would say she
favours super holy auras less than misty ones. As in super holy auras = okay, misty auras = yay!
-Does donating to beggars eventually give your character a super holy aura?
Yes. Donate much and often enough, avoid evil thingies. *cough* borrowing *cough* and you will have such an aura.
-Does Gwen
then dislike those who do extreme charity because they will end up with a holy aura?[/quote]
To get and stay with a super holy aura, you would practically have to avoid anyone with even the slightest of bad karma. (I think.)
I would say this would be what Gwen would favour less, while she would not dislike charity in itself. Does this make sense?
lanyara wrote:
What I don't quite understand is how the aspects of war can be so different from death. I mean, if you go on the battlefield for glory, and slaughter folks... then the net result is fitting to death just as well. But Gwen doesn't dislike the end result (death) as much as war itself? What if everyone would use the blunt side of the weapon and have "wars" like that where'd you just put people unconscious ... but you don't kill them ... would Gwen dislike that more or less ...
Asral is god of war and death... War breeds anger, hate, et cetera, while death can be quite natural?
I think this is where personality kicks in. There's a book about Gwen and Asrals animosity in Elvandar...
Of course, Gwen can forgive anything, which leads to the conclussion that she either have not gotten over that incident yet (least sense),
Asral refused her forgiveness (more sense), or that it is the characters faith which lessens, and not Gwen's favour. Sadly, faith and favour
are measured as one.
lanyara wrote:
I'd really like to have each deity given a specific personally, and work from that point, rather than lower it down to aspects solely (which I find very much OOC aspects ... are gods in GEAS without unique personality, ambitions, goals?)
Yes... As I see it, Gwen's personality is that of an all-loving, all-forgiving, hedonistic goddess of love, lust and beauty. Oh, and balance. Love, beauty, balance, as it states upon her altar.
Those could be called parts of her personality, aspects of her personality, or just aspects. (Could they not?)
All-loving: Gwen loves everyone and everything. There is a slight lack of logic when it comes to asral and asralites here, but
this could be explained that Asral for example reacts negatively to her attempts, while other deities, Sathonys, only refuses her attempts.
The difference between 'Smiles coldly and states evilly: No.' and 'CHAAARGEEEE!!! ATTACK!!! DIEEEEEEEEE!'
All-forgiving: This is tightly tied to the all-loving part. If you love everyone, you would be able to forgive everyone, no?
This also goes to show that she is a welcoming goddess. Who tries to be nice, instead of nasty, no?
Hedonisticism: Her fruit speaks for itself, and she does not seem to trouble herself with many worries?
Goddess: Gender. Most people have a gender.
Love: One of the aspects she is deity of.
Lust: Byproduct of former aspect.
Beauty: Golden fruit. Golden tree huts. Golden, golden, statues and pretty dresses.
Balance: all-loving, all-forgiving, aiding all. Balanced. No?
*crosses his fingers and hopes this makes sense*