Friday, 21st February 2014, 05:52 by nicolae
Like duvessa said, the initial conducts forbid everything described as producing light, which got really awkward in keeping track of them and communicating to the player what was verboten. Currently, the conduct is, flavorwise, sort of split into two related-but-technically-distinct parts:
1) Things which explicitly produce mechanical, in-game effects described as light: corona and haloes. I'd be willing to support Dithmenos once again hating items that cause glow (for one thing, I liked that Zin and Dithmenos hated glow but for entirely different thematic reasons), but I'm not going to argue for it very hard. Dazzling Spray might make sense to be forbidden as well, but again, I'm not going to put much effort into that. The Cloak of Starlight, though, doesn't have any real gameplay "light" effects other than the loss of stealth, and so it's okay. Dithmenos is probably giving you the side-eye, a bit, but you haven't really blasphemed yet.
2) Flavorise, the specific injunction against fire isn't so much about its ability to produce illumination, since no fire spell (other than Sticky Flame on invisible creatures) really applies any sort of light effect. It's more of a symbolic thing, relating back to mythological history. Fire was the first thing that intelligent beings could control to drive away the darkness whenever and wherever they wanted, and was given a special mythological importance among intelligent beings because of it. Dithmenos has never really gotten over this, and thus fire holds a special place of hate in Dithmenos' heart (or whatever divine analogue of a heart Dithmenos has).
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