Can anyone help me wrap my brain around the fatebinding...
1 - No fatebinding can happen unless a God directly interacts with the World, in the World.
2 - Fatebinding yanks mortals from their normal "fates" and... kinda chains them to the God in question? (ie Jane Foster -> Thor(?)). They do not have to be worshipers of said god and (the books make it seem) more of a "you were in the wrong place at the wrong time" kinda thing. So if you are a God with a little respect for the lives of everyday humans (kind of a streach) then you don't want Fatebinding out of respect for mortals and their lives. Not to mention Fatebinding can build you a entorage of mortals that is similar to a pack of starving puppies underfoot all the time while you are in the world.
3 - (This is the one i really don't get) With modern mass media/tech if a God is captured doing "God like things" it can radically alter the nature of the God themselves. Then the book points to some weak example of how the African Gods got shifted to the Loa by trying to interfeer with colonial slave trade (?)
I am sure I have some of this misunderstood. I can understand #2, though it seems mostly an annoyance, but it can easily snowball into more. #3 does not make sense as the book says that human worship does not effect the Gods directly. So I am not seeing how Fatebinding can boomerang and smack the Gods themselves in the teeth. I have not gotten to the actual mechanics of Fatebinding in the book yet so that might shed some light on it... but not holding my breath.
1 - No fatebinding can happen unless a God directly interacts with the World, in the World.
2 - Fatebinding yanks mortals from their normal "fates" and... kinda chains them to the God in question? (ie Jane Foster -> Thor(?)). They do not have to be worshipers of said god and (the books make it seem) more of a "you were in the wrong place at the wrong time" kinda thing. So if you are a God with a little respect for the lives of everyday humans (kind of a streach) then you don't want Fatebinding out of respect for mortals and their lives. Not to mention Fatebinding can build you a entorage of mortals that is similar to a pack of starving puppies underfoot all the time while you are in the world.
3 - (This is the one i really don't get) With modern mass media/tech if a God is captured doing "God like things" it can radically alter the nature of the God themselves. Then the book points to some weak example of how the African Gods got shifted to the Loa by trying to interfeer with colonial slave trade (?)
I am sure I have some of this misunderstood. I can understand #2, though it seems mostly an annoyance, but it can easily snowball into more. #3 does not make sense as the book says that human worship does not effect the Gods directly. So I am not seeing how Fatebinding can boomerang and smack the Gods themselves in the teeth. I have not gotten to the actual mechanics of Fatebinding in the book yet so that might shed some light on it... but not holding my breath.
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