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The Mothers' Cottage and Earth...
groinkick:
Well the Mothers are so tied to the Earth's weather it could be that they are everywhere, and nowhere at the same time. That their cottage can only be accessed if they allow it, and it can be done from anywhere.
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: Quantus on June 20, 2017, 08:03:31 PM ---Agreed, that's were we diverge. Im still not on board <snip> that Nature itself would be less powerful in the Southern Hemisphere simply because there are fewer Humans to be confused by it.
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I certainly dont think that the Power of the courts are "unchanging", but I do think that at the Global level Summer and Winter need to constantly balance each other (within the variance that their politics emit) because that's the only way a giant spinning /anything/ can be balanced; physics is skewing my understanding of this though wich could be a mistake.
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I will agree that I think each side has a Pool of Power (which Im guessing is called the Wellspring but I could be wrong) that is independent of geography, or else it would mean that the Gate Forces are significantly under-powered for half the year. Which is crazy-talk :p
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I generally agree with your characterization of how worship changed with the popular/scientific understanding of Nature, but the thing I really dont get behind is the assumed Schism of the hemispheres or the idea that the Northern Hemisphere is fundamentally more Important in a metaphysical sense than the Southern simply because it has more humans.
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Regardless of the source (all-nature-aspect or gifted-free-will), the power of the Courts is entirely dependent on the Northern hemisphere.
In Summer Knight, it's flat-out said that Summer is at its strongest on the Summer Solstice (tomorrow!), and gradually weakens until the Winter Solstice. When it comes to the Guardians of the Gates, their power revolves around the Northern hemisphere.
Now, I see a few arguments as to why that's the case.
1) The power of the Aspect of the Seasons is stronger in the North than the South (neither of us think this makes sense)
2) The dominant Court is based on the origin hemisphere of the Sidhe (this makes no sense to me)
3) It's determined by human perception of the season, which collectively is dominant in the Northern hemisphere.(this makes sense to me)
The North being dominant to the South doesn't seem to be debatable. Only the source of the power shift seems up for interpretation.
--- Quote --- <snip> Im still not on board with the whole notion that all the deities are fueled so directly by their Believer-counts
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I'm fine with deities having multiple sources of power, but I think that human recognition of deities and their purviews is a big factor. But that's a debate for a different thread.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on June 20, 2017, 08:43:48 PM ---Regardless of the source (all-nature-aspect or gifted-free-will), the power of the Courts is entirely dependent on the Northern hemisphere.
In Summer Knight, it's flat-out said that Summer is at its strongest on the Summer Solstice (tomorrow!), and gradually weakens until the Winter Solstice. When it comes to the Guardians of the Gates, their power revolves around the Northern hemisphere.
Now, I see a few arguments as to why that's the case.
1) The power of the Aspect of the Seasons is stronger in the North than the South (neither of us think this makes sense)
2) The dominant Court is based on the origin hemisphere of the Sidhe (this makes no sense to me)
3) It's determined by human perception of the season, which collectively is dominant in the Northern hemisphere.(this makes sense to me)
The North being dominant to the South doesn't seem to be debatable. Only the source of the power shift seems up for interpretation.
I'm fine with deities having multiple sources of power, but I think that human recognition of deities and their purview is a big factor. But that's a debate for a different thread.
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Dude, that's all still based on a fundamental Assumption that the two hemispheres are not balanced in terms of Power, which to my mind falls somewhere between unlikely and impossible.
nedserD C B yrraH:
Why? There is, literally, twice as much land area in the northern hemisphere. That could easily lead to Fomor having more power in the southern hemisphere by simply reducing the power available to the Fae.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: nedserD C B yrraH on June 21, 2017, 06:20:40 PM ---Why? There is, literally, twice as much land area in the northern hemisphere. That could easily lead to Fomor having more power in the southern hemisphere by simply reducing the power available to the Fae.
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I think we're drifting off into different topics, I was talking about the cumulative Power dichotomy of the Summer/Winter Whole (of which the Wyld are a part), not just the actual Courts that guard their respective territories.
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