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Author Topic: Aethist Dwarves and You!  (Read 3963 times)

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Re: Aethist Dwarves and You!
« Reply #15 on: October 16, 2012, 09:02:20 pm »

There's only one god I want my dwarves to care about, and I can't even curse them.
Drown them in magma and death, but nothing spiritual... *sigh
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Re: Aethist Dwarves and You!
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2012, 12:55:53 pm »

Time out for a second, wouldn't an atheist dwarf be a guaranteed non-cursed dwarf?
No, you can be cursed by gods you don't worship.
Which then causes the Dwarf to worship that God.

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Re: Aethist Dwarves and You!
« Reply #17 on: October 18, 2012, 12:08:03 am »

Time out for a second, wouldn't an atheist dwarf be a guaranteed non-cursed dwarf?
No, you can be cursed by gods you don't worship.
Which then causes the Dwarf to worship that God.
Well, that's quite a way to end atheological debate, isn't it?
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Re: Aethist Dwarves and You!
« Reply #18 on: October 18, 2012, 12:09:09 am »

Time out for a second, wouldn't an atheist dwarf be a guaranteed non-cursed dwarf?
No, you can be cursed by gods you don't worship.
Which then causes the Dwarf to worship that God.
Well, that's quite a way to end atheological debate, isn't it?
I almost certain it ain't so joe. I only need a willing vamp.
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Re: Aethist Dwarves and You!
« Reply #19 on: October 18, 2012, 12:31:40 am »

What if you had the power to smite Dwarves, but doing it in the presence of other Dwarves (or in such a way as to make other Dwarves believe you did it), caused them to worship you so vehemently and mindlessly that they would ignore orders and begin constructing a temple to you in the nearest available large enough space, using whatever material is closest to hand?
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Re: Aethist Dwarves and You!
« Reply #20 on: October 18, 2012, 12:35:34 am »

Then when they build you a temple out of steel and candy, emptying your reserves for a useless building outside of your fort during a siege..... While you scream at them to stop building in sight of the archers..
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Re: Aethist Dwarves and You!
« Reply #21 on: October 18, 2012, 12:37:02 am »

What if you had the power to smite Dwarves, but doing it in the presence of other Dwarves (or in such a way as to make other Dwarves believe you did it), caused them to worship you so vehemently and mindlessly that they would ignore orders and begin constructing a temple to you in the nearest available large enough space, using whatever material is closest to hand?
This, is exactly what my dwarves fo anyways.
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Re: Aethist Dwarves and You!
« Reply #22 on: October 18, 2012, 07:57:33 am »

No, you can be cursed by gods you don't worship.

Dammit.
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Re: Aethist Dwarves and You!
« Reply #23 on: October 18, 2012, 10:33:45 am »

What if you had the power to smite Dwarves, but doing it in the presence of other Dwarves (or in such a way as to make other Dwarves believe you did it), caused them to worship you so vehemently and mindlessly that they would ignore orders and begin constructing a temple to you in the nearest available large enough space, using whatever material is closest to hand?

sounds like a mighty fine megaproject to me.
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Re: Aethist Dwarves and You!
« Reply #24 on: October 18, 2012, 12:13:45 pm »

I figured they had to do something stupid to get a god to curse them (like urinating on the high preist of the shiney crap god/goddess or painting graffiti on the temple of the fertility god/goddess.) Plus I've seen dwarves opt to instead worship monsters instead of gods. Spearbreakers has a massive atheist population, but the next largest group is a group of dwarves who worship two different titans/forgtten beasts. Dwarves who worship dwarven gods are almost nonexistant in that fort.

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Re: Aethist Dwarves and You!
« Reply #25 on: October 18, 2012, 12:20:03 pm »

Time out for a second, wouldn't an atheist dwarf be a guaranteed non-cursed dwarf?
No, you can be cursed by gods you don't worship.
Which then causes the Dwarf to worship that God.
Well, that's quite a way to end atheological debate, isn't it?
I almost certain it ain't so joe. I only need a willing vamp.
I doesn't always make them worship that god, there are atheist vampires, and atheist were-beasts. I've killed many.
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Re: Aethist Dwarves and You!
« Reply #26 on: October 18, 2012, 01:41:57 pm »

I doesn't always make them worship that god, there are atheist vampires, and atheist were-beasts. I've killed many.
But were these the products of god-cursing?

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Re: Aethist Dwarves and You!
« Reply #27 on: October 18, 2012, 03:38:15 pm »

Fun fact: you will never see Armok as worshipped god in dwarf description. Probably because you are Armok in this game.
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Re: Aethist Dwarves and You!
« Reply #28 on: October 18, 2012, 03:50:34 pm »

Time out for a second, wouldn't an atheist dwarf be a guaranteed non-cursed dwarf?
No, you can be cursed by gods you don't worship.
I wonder what it is they think they were cursed by? Radiation?
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Re: Aethist Dwarves and You!
« Reply #29 on: October 18, 2012, 04:07:45 pm »

I wonder what it is they think they were cursed by? Radiation?
A god.
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