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Creeds = Races

What we as humans believe will probably not be what the logovores believe. And even if they did, they would have to act very differently to express those beliefs. What exactly does it mean to come together in prayer if you all exist within the same giant creature and you can download the sermon?

I intend for creeds to serve the function for logovores that racial distinctions serve for fantasy games.

Mythopoeic Creed = Elves

Homofidelic Creed = Humans

Herotechnic Creed = Gnomes

Neobiotic Creed = Chthulhu monsters

Actually the neobiotics were inspired by Gentleman John describing logovores building shoggoths.

And I like the idea that a human can be encoded by logovores, live in space, possess god-like power, and then he finds Cthulhu isn't some horrible incomprehensible monster. Cthulhu is more like a really bad creepy neighbor that you suspect of being a serial murderer.

But the same way there are high elves and grey elves and wood elves, there should be different projects within each creed to build different civilizations based on different ideas and concepts (or misconceptions). And the same way there is more than one high elf city-state in a typical fantasy world, there could be more than one Vedic Mythopoeic Logovore Civilization. One could be just like Vyoman, ruled by a Vishnu figure, with a Shiva and a Brahma figure in the background. One could be ruled by a triumvirate. One could be ruled by an Indra figure. One Mythopoeic Logovore Civilization might take Heaven as described in the book of Revelation as their blueprint, and another, the book of Isaiah (There is a flying saucer in it, right?)

I'm going to start a new blog entry to get out a lot of the ideas that have been rattling around my head or scribbled onto scraps of napkins.

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