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Faith and creatures

When I bought creatures 2 as a kid I had no idea what to expect. As I have said before I even wondered whether my little tribe of norns would develop a religion. They didn’t, my expectations were a little high I admit. Perhaps this was a thought more players have had, and I at least still think its a reasonable one. All human cultures have had religions or faith in various levels of complexity, and finding explanations or filling in voids is wholly natural. Because of this even our pre-stone age norn cultures might have had a hand in it. Now in a way we, the hand, are something norns already look up to. They simply lack the small things that allow for worship. “Doing things for another” is something creatures miss, something generally necessary for societies as a whole. A base version of this could be pre programmed as an instinct, and has been in the past. But never in mythical reverence. In the design mythology for creatures the norns make a pilgrimage every generation, travelling ar...

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