09-26-2016, 07:43 PM | #101 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
Space traditionalists are not always doofuses to be herded around by enlightened people from other planets(I'm talking to you, Cordelia Vorkosigan!).
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09-26-2016, 08:12 PM | #102 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
A fantasy character who is pious, but who isn't a priest, holy warrior, or divine chosen one.
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09-26-2016, 08:53 PM | #103 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
Except that settings with verifiable gods and powers given by them, one has to wonder why your devout character isn't worthy of any.
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09-26-2016, 09:07 PM | #104 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
Also: A fantasy setting without verifiable gods or undeniably divine powers. :)
Sorry. My personal fantasy setting has become so engrained in my head that I sometimes forget what does and doesn't match the mainstream space-trope continuum.
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09-26-2016, 09:31 PM | #105 |
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09-26-2016, 09:40 PM | #106 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
A god of death that is more psychopomp than psychopath.
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09-26-2016, 11:19 PM | #107 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
Commander Sisko isn't enough for you? ;)
I may not like religion, but it is odd just how few otherwise rational people are religious in hard science fiction settings. Advanced technology and cultural shift seem to reduce its prevalence, but complete elimination seems horribly far fetched without genetic modification.
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09-26-2016, 11:21 PM | #108 |
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Re: bending stereotypes
The D&D god of death in the setting for the Neverwinter game is kind wanting peaceful order as well as hating all forms of undead.
But whether the god of death, is good, bad or indifferent really depends on over all mythology and reason for death. I don't find it irrational to see inevitable death as bad nearly every time.
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09-27-2016, 02:45 AM | #109 |
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09-27-2016, 06:28 AM | #110 |
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Well, both Neil Gaiman's perky goth gal Death and Terry Pratchett's dryly sarcastic skeletal Death act more as conductors facilitating the transition between Life and Death than as predators precipitating that transition.
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