Glad to see the responses, keep’em coming if you have’em.
Regarding the DO: in-game, my character has raided Thakan’dar itself. And when you try to channel there, the Dark One smites you with lightning. Which I’ve lived through. And being a channeler, I can claim having felt the nearness of the Bore. So I expect to have the least trouble with that one.
The Creator is a bigger puzzle. He doesn’t seem to do anything...
I suppose an alternative is asking your students to ponder the question of what evidence there is for the Creator, and leave open the possibility of being Creator-agnostic. Clearly in a world like the WOT-verse, the prior for a supernatural creator deity is much higher, given that there’s a pretty well established supernatural anticreator deity, so there’s not much call to be an a-Creatorist, but even if we know from authorial say-so that the Creator exists, there’s not necessarily anything wrong with acknowledging from a character perspective that there isn’t enough data to be confident.
Glad to see the responses, keep’em coming if you have’em.
Regarding the DO: in-game, my character has raided Thakan’dar itself. And when you try to channel there, the Dark One smites you with lightning. Which I’ve lived through. And being a channeler, I can claim having felt the nearness of the Bore. So I expect to have the least trouble with that one.
The Creator is a bigger puzzle. He doesn’t seem to do anything...
I suppose an alternative is asking your students to ponder the question of what evidence there is for the Creator, and leave open the possibility of being Creator-agnostic. Clearly in a world like the WOT-verse, the prior for a supernatural creator deity is much higher, given that there’s a pretty well established supernatural anticreator deity, so there’s not much call to be an a-Creatorist, but even if we know from authorial say-so that the Creator exists, there’s not necessarily anything wrong with acknowledging from a character perspective that there isn’t enough data to be confident.