Salvation and damnation in Earwa

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« Reply #45 on: May 08, 2014, 10:39:23 pm »
More like the energy source that gives form/life to the universe.  Gods and sorcerers are just taking advantage for their own 'benefit'.
Retracing his bloody footprints, the Wizard limped on.

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« Reply #46 on: May 08, 2014, 10:45:52 pm »
More like the energy source that gives form/life to the universe.  Gods and sorcerers are just taking advantage for their own 'benefit'.

There's something like this in Lev Grossman's The Magician King.  But I don't recommend it.  :(

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« Reply #47 on: May 08, 2014, 10:49:55 pm »
Well, there is no such thing as a truly original idea ;)

But it does frame Bakker's description of Earwa as a metaphysical who-done-it quite nicely. Gives a motive to the question of why Hell exists and leaves the "who made it this way" open.
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« Reply #48 on: May 08, 2014, 10:56:41 pm »
Well, there is no such thing as a truly original idea ;)

But it does frame Bakker's description of Earwa as a metaphysical who-done-it quite nicely. Gives a motive to the question of why Hell exists and leaves the "who made it this way" open.

Lol, I found that out when I started reading posts here!  Thought I was so clever--you, Wilshire, Madness and the others have me beat by YEARS!!!  Grossman ain't got shit on Bakker tho.  But I did like The Magicians as a kind of grown up and warped Narnia/Hogwarts.