Re: CF: the begining of crossfire

[Steven Lembark <lembark@wrkhors.com>]

Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote:
> 
> This is just something right off my head... but I was just thinking, do we
> *have* to have one, unique, story about how the CF world came into being?
> After all, these stories are passed down by the priests, right? Why can't we
> have a slightly different version of the story (or even outright different
> stories) from the different religions/races/etc.?
> 
> This will make things so much easier... priests from each cult will have his
> own story, which, of course, would center around his beliefs. I think this
> would add much more flavour to the game than to have a single, linear story.
> It would also eliminate the need to explain everything -- these different
> stories don't have to be 100% consistent with each other, and they can simply
> be a basis for why a certain race has a certain attitude.
> 
> Eg. Gnarg's story might explain dwarves as retarded results of
> not-so-successful attempts of creating goblins/trolls; whereas Mostrai's story
> might hold the opposite view that the goblins were the "accidental" race. The
> two stories will be inconsistent in one respect, but consistent in another
> respect in that both show the hostility between the two races. After all, we
> don't really care how exactly dwarves or goblins came about -- what we care is
> that they are hostile to each other because of their racial background.

three sides to every story: your side, their side and the truth, eh?

i've been playing with this also -- trying to come up with a 
plausable creation from a priest of ruggilli.  beast guess is
that there should be one from each god, available from the 
priests.  obvously, opposing gods might have different things to
say about one another.

this might also be a good way to disseminate info about the
strengths/weaknesses granted to followers:  ask in temple-a
and you find out about the protection, etc; ask in the place
that hates a and you get their weakness...

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