Labrat wrote:
Slamlander wrote:
If Ian hangs around, I doubt that will be an issue. If he doesn't, most barbarians don't like going to god death sites. The fact that a god died there would be more than enough to keep most of them away, for a goodly while. By then, the walls will have either been repaired or it'll be a ghost town. Even money bets either way.
In no time at all, it will turn into a cheesy tourist trap. Bad souveniers, barely digestable food, and employees with the worst concieveable morale.
You know, I feel like that too much of us are TV addict where what we see is what we 'supposely' accept as fact.
In a society not specially advance (even in an advance one, in fact...) no video-camera will have save the event, can very easly deny what happen.
Most of people will remember is a devil comming from the sky attacked the city and the church - at this point the vast majority of the population is hidding in their house, not looking what is happenning outside - and Luminosita came to kill the devil from the sky and to protect the church and the fidels. The battle between them was titanic (without the boat) and end by a udge explosion. - The dispel of Luminosita haven't been seen by probably 99% of the population, and only the priest/magicien/summoner seems to a noted that it is fondamentally missing. The rest of the population is still hidding. When thing started to be more calm, more peacefull, people come out and that the 2 last panel. -
Meaning: Almost nobody in the failfull population have witness the fall of Luminosita, and if Ian don do something UDGE in front of the population - And no, jumping alive and going back to the hight-priest IS NOT doing something udge, specially if he leave right after that - they have absolutly no reason to stop believing in their great god.
If I was the priesthood, and Ian come to me, go to the vault and leave without making a udge statement, demonstration of his omnipotence or something like that, I will gather the population in a great religious celebration to thanks Luminosita, who came to save the failfull, have fought the devil, and have imprest him so much that the devil came back to tell to the church that Luminosita, during the fight, showed him the true light and the real true.
"This is the only reason why Luminosita, in his great generosity and forgiveness, haven't killed the devil after have vainquish him, because the devil understoud is mistake and sweared his allegence to Luminosita and his church that's why he came to us and left to do penitence, dear failfulls"
So, unless Ian act very drasticly in the next bunch of strip, those who claim the death of Luminosita's church, are under-estimating the povers of conviction and of denial of the institution, no matter who they serve...