Exalted: Volcanos?

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So I was flipping through Scavenger Sons again, sort of
idly reading about the West.

And there are, of course, volcanic islands in the West.

Sure, I thought, need someplace to have your Exalts vs.
the Volcano God fights, right.

But how do volcanos work in Creation? It's not like Creation
is a huge oblate spheriod with a molten core. Where's that
lava in the West coming from? Some wacky underground river of
lava that flows from the South?

~Pax

 

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In the borning days of the third millennium, Patrick Baldwin wrote:
>
> So I was flipping through Scavenger Sons again, sort of
> idly reading about the West.
>
> And there are, of course, volcanic islands in the West.
>
> Sure, I thought, need someplace to have your Exalts vs.
> the Volcano God fights, right.
>
> But how do volcanos work in Creation? It's not like Creation
> is a huge oblate spheriod with a molten core. Where's that
> lava in the West coming from? Some wacky underground river of
> lava that flows from the South?

You already answered your own question. The Volcano Gods make them.

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them from enjoying it.
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Brian Merchant (remove.cheebie2001@comcast.example.net) wrote:
: In the borning days of the third millennium, Patrick Baldwin wrote:
: >
: > So I was flipping through Scavenger Sons again, sort of
: > idly reading about the West.
: >
: > And there are, of course, volcanic islands in the West.
: >
: > Sure, I thought, need someplace to have your Exalts vs.
: > the Volcano God fights, right.
: >
: > But how do volcanos work in Creation? It's not like Creation
: > is a huge oblate spheriod with a molten core. Where's that
: > lava in the West coming from? Some wacky underground river of
: > lava that flows from the South?
:
: You already answered your own question. The Volcano Gods make them.
:

So you figure that somewhere in the Celestial Bureaucracy there's
some staffers going "OK, so we're going to need volcanos *here*
and *here* to keep everything running smoothly, get someone out
there to start that going."?


I wonder what purpose volcanos serve in Creation, then?

~Pax

 

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Patrick Baldwin wrote:

> So you figure that somewhere in the Celestial Bureaucracy there's
> some staffers going "OK, so we're going to need volcanos *here*
> and *here* to keep everything running smoothly, get someone out
> there to start that going."?

That's the case for /everything/ in Creation.

> I wonder what purpose volcanos serve in Creation, then?

Controlled release of Fire-aspected Essence into the environment.
--
Stephenls
Geek
"I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow." -Spike

 

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pax@iridium.mv.com (Patrick Baldwin) wrote in message news:<cdpd6m$gnu$1@pyrite.mv.net>...
> Brian Merchant (remove.cheebie2001@comcast.example.net) wrote:
> : In the borning days of the third millennium, Patrick Baldwin wrote:
> : >
> : > So I was flipping through Scavenger Sons again, sort of
> : > idly reading about the West.
> : >
> : > And there are, of course, volcanic islands in the West.
> : >
> : > Sure, I thought, need someplace to have your Exalts vs.
> : > the Volcano God fights, right.
> : >
> : > But how do volcanos work in Creation? It's not like Creation
> : > is a huge oblate spheriod with a molten core. Where's that
> : > lava in the West coming from? Some wacky underground river of
> : > lava that flows from the South?
> :
> : You already answered your own question. The Volcano Gods make them.
> :
>
> So you figure that somewhere in the Celestial Bureaucracy there's
> some staffers going "OK, so we're going to need volcanos *here*
> and *here* to keep everything running smoothly, get someone out
> there to start that going."?
>
>
> I wonder what purpose volcanos serve in Creation, then?

I'm thinking of the Ice Age Magic card that had the stream of lava
blasting in a straight pillar.

Being a God is all about special effects and pyrotechnics.

Plus, it's a way of an element entering the world. "Why are there
volcanos?" could easily be "Why are there trees?" or "Why is there
water?"

Also, it's cause lava's a many splendid thing.

 

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"Stephenls" <stephenls@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:2mb2o6Fl8nfgU1@uni-berlin.de...
> Patrick Baldwin wrote:
>
> > So you figure that somewhere in the Celestial Bureaucracy there's
> > some staffers going "OK, so we're going to need volcanos *here*
> > and *here* to keep everything running smoothly, get someone out
> > there to start that going."?
>
> That's the case for /everything/ in Creation.
>
> > I wonder what purpose volcanos serve in Creation, then?
>
> Controlled release of Fire-aspected Essence into the environment.

Or perhaps a god who needs an island right *here* and doesn't have the mojo
to raise it himself contracts some fire elementals to build one the hard
way.

- David Prokopetz.

 

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pax@iridium.mv.com (Patrick Baldwin) wrote in message news:<cdp5s4$b5f$1@pyrite.mv.net>...

> But how do volcanos work in Creation? It's not like Creation
> is a huge oblate spheriod with a molten core. Where's that
> lava in the West coming from? Some wacky underground river of
> lava that flows from the South?

"You see son, when a daddy fire elemental loves a mommy earth
elemental very, very much..."

- Eric Tolle

 

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In the borning days of the third millennium, Patrick Baldwin wrote:
>Brian Merchant (remove.cheebie2001@comcast.example.net) wrote:
>: > But how do volcanos work in Creation? It's not like Creation
>: > is a huge oblate spheriod with a molten core. Where's that
>: > lava in the West coming from? Some wacky underground river of
>: > lava that flows from the South?
>:
>: You already answered your own question. The Volcano Gods make them.
> So you figure that somewhere in the Celestial Bureaucracy there's
> some staffers going "OK, so we're going to need volcanos *here*
> and *here* to keep everything running smoothly, get someone out
> there to start that going."?

These are volcano gods. They roar their rage at all things not on fire and
smite the earth.

> I wonder what purpose volcanos serve in Creation, then?

They're wicked cool.

--
Brian Merchant (remove 'remove' and 'example' from email)

Puritanism didn't keep the puritans from sinning, it just kept
them from enjoying it.
--Father Joe Breighner
Country Roads

 

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Patrick Baldwin wrote:

> So I was flipping through Scavenger Sons again, sort of
> idly reading about the West.
>
> And there are, of course, volcanic islands in the West.
>
> Sure, I thought, need someplace to have your Exalts vs.
> the Volcano God fights, right.
>
> But how do volcanos work in Creation? It's not like Creation
> is a huge oblate spheriod with a molten core. Where's that
> lava in the West coming from? Some wacky underground river of
> lava that flows from the South?

AFAIK this has not been canonically addressed, but my guess would be
upwellings of fire-aspected Essence.
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Brian Merchant <remove.cheebie2001@comcast.example.net> wrote in message news:<95b3g0pf6vvelkd6ikmigjkoken4gvq1re@4ax.com>...
> In the borning days of the third millennium, Patrick Baldwin wrote:
> >Brian Merchant (remove.cheebie2001@comcast.example.net) wrote:
> >: > But how do volcanos work in Creation? It's not like Creation
> >: > is a huge oblate spheriod with a molten core. Where's that
> >: > lava in the West coming from? Some wacky underground river of
> >: > lava that flows from the South?
> >:
> >: You already answered your own question. The Volcano Gods make them.
> > So you figure that somewhere in the Celestial Bureaucracy there's
> > some staffers going "OK, so we're going to need volcanos *here*
> > and *here* to keep everything running smoothly, get someone out
> > there to start that going."?
>
> These are volcano gods. They roar their rage at all things not on fire and
> smite the earth.

And hunger for pretty young virgins...
>
> > I wonder what purpose volcanos serve in Creation, then?
>
> They're wicked cool.

And they exist for cults to toss the afore-mentioned virgins into; and
for the PCs to rescue said virgins from, thereby receiving their
grateful affections (virginally, of course)...

Dex,
yet to see a fat, pasty, middle-aged male virgin sacrificed for
anything...^^

 

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>Or perhaps a god who needs an island right *here* and doesn't have the mojo
>to raise it himself contracts some fire elementals to build one the hard
>way.

The creation of volcanos could be Creation's way to replace all those islands
being eroded away by the Wyld ocean in those parts. That area may actually
need more vulcanism, not less.

 

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Hand-of-Omega wrote:
> Brian Merchant <remove.cheebie2001@comcast.example.net> wrote in message news:<95b3g0pf6vvelkd6ikmigjkoken4gvq1re@4ax.com>...
>
>>In the borning days of the third millennium, Patrick Baldwin wrote:
>>
>>>Brian Merchant (remove.cheebie2001@comcast.example.net) wrote:
>>>: > But how do volcanos work in Creation? It's not like Creation
>>>: > is a huge oblate spheriod with a molten core. Where's that
>>>: > lava in the West coming from? Some wacky underground river of
>>>: > lava that flows from the South?
>>>:
>>>: You already answered your own question. The Volcano Gods make them.
>>> So you figure that somewhere in the Celestial Bureaucracy there's
>>> some staffers going "OK, so we're going to need volcanos *here*
>>> and *here* to keep everything running smoothly, get someone out
>>> there to start that going."?
>>
>>These are volcano gods. They roar their rage at all things not on fire and
>>smite the earth.
>
> And hunger for pretty young virgins...
>
>>> I wonder what purpose volcanos serve in Creation, then?
>>
>>They're wicked cool.
>
> And they exist for cults to toss the afore-mentioned virgins into; and
> for the PCs to rescue said virgins from, thereby receiving their
> grateful affections (virginally, of course)...

Pfah. Virgins are highly overrated.
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In article <2mhrb9Fn3781U2@uni-berlin.de>, Richard Clayton
<reZIGclaytonZIG@verizon.net> writes:

> AFAIK this has not been canonically addressed, but my guess would be
>upwellings of fire-aspected Essence.

In Greek myth, volcanoes usually cover some horrible, gigantic monster born of
Gaia and Tartarus. Ex: When the gods finally managed to defeat Typhon, they
dropped Sicily on him, and his fiery breath still comes up Mt. Etna. In the Age
of the Exalted, some volcanoes could imprison fiery monsters created by the
Primordials, still occasionally writhing and gasping in their death-agonies.

You could combine this with other explanations, too. The jailor god who
imprisons the monster is charged with prodding the beast when the world needs
more fire-aspected Essence, or he demands a virgin when the job gets too
tedious....


Dean Shomshak