Lois’s answer to “Have you ever considered writing a Five Worlds piece from the viewpoint of the gods?” > Likes and Comments
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This is one of the things that I loved about the Assassins of Thasalon. The Bastard partially manifests for a few seconds and that almost strains the minds of everyone present. Several faint.
This is the problem I have with the way the majority of 'gods' are written in fantasy. If they aren't Cthulhu/King in Yellow level beings just call them something other than gods.
This makes perfect sense and makes a nice counterpoint to the usual depiction of gods in fantasy tropes. I don't think you need to dispense with the term 'god' to describe lesser beings who are still "god-like" to humans, though. Anything with some quantity of that ineffableness might qualify as a god, relatively speaking.
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Well, there's the term "demi-god", but that more usually refers to half-breeds, though sometimes jumped-up humans. "Culture hero" is another myth-studies term for the more human side. Prometheus would be an example of the latter, I think, with the posthumous Roman emperors an attempt to conscript the concept for political propaganda.
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This is one of the things that I loved about the Assassins of Thasalon. The Bastard partially manifests for a few seconds and that almost strains the minds of everyone present. Several faint.This is the problem I have with the way the majority of 'gods' are written in fantasy. If they aren't Cthulhu/King in Yellow level beings just call them something other than gods.
This makes perfect sense and makes a nice counterpoint to the usual depiction of gods in fantasy tropes. I don't think you need to dispense with the term 'god' to describe lesser beings who are still "god-like" to humans, though. Anything with some quantity of that ineffableness might qualify as a god, relatively speaking.
@ MV --Well, there's the term "demi-god", but that more usually refers to half-breeds, though sometimes jumped-up humans. "Culture hero" is another myth-studies term for the more human side. Prometheus would be an example of the latter, I think, with the posthumous Roman emperors an attempt to conscript the concept for political propaganda.
L.
