Talk:Incarnations of Immortality
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[edit] On a Pale Horse
This was another page, dunno why. Had mostly the same text, looks like an earlier version maybe. Anyway, redirected here. While I was at it, I made the other titles as new articles with redirects so hopefully it won't happen again... -- RevRagnarok Talk Contrib Reverts 22:52, 7 July 2006 (UTC) I think it should be a different page because its not getting the atention it needs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.113.151.80 (talk) 22:49, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Mention of the Incarnation of Good?
I believe that the statement "The fate of a former Incarnation of Good is never mentioned" is in error, though it's been a long time since I've read them: YHWH is mentioned in "With a tangled skien" User:Psychobunny2412
- YHVH isn't a former Incarnation of Good, as far as I can tell. As the God of the Jews, he's just one of many (relatively) minor dieties that aren't as powerful as the major Incarnations, and his "office" seems to have always been occupied by the same "person." The Incarnation of Good is apparently a title that properly belongs to the God of the Christians, and they don't say what happened to him when he was replaced. (In For Love of Evil, YHVH says that all gods that people believe in exist, but their power and influence is determined by the number of people that believe in their existance.) - CronoDAS 06:54, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
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- I think YHVH or Parry stated that in theory YHVH and the Christian God is the same but in practice, the position split off or something. But yes, if we construe "Incarnation of Good" to mean the line of officeholders now held by Orlene, YHVH doesn't count though it is implied that they are related in some way.
Aarontay 20:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
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- YHVH is said (by Parry/Satan/Natasha) to be able to navigate the Void because He was the former master of the universe, essentially the position now held by God, who is presumably Christian. Whether or not this makes him the Incarnation of Good is debatable, mainly given the differences between the Hebrew and Christian views on God (e.g., vengeful vs. forgiving).
[edit] Zane's Whodunnit
This page asserts that it was the Magician who found out Zane to be the prime candidate as the next Death; however, on page 236, Nature states that "I defined the qualities of the person who could and would do what had to be done, and Fate arranged to put him--you--in the proper situation." The Magician was in on their dealings, and may have made a (false) claim earlier on, but it was not he who selected Zane from among the masses. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.15.199.171 (talk) 00:57, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Splits
Please get the novels split off into their own articles. I timed the load time a few minutes ago over a dial-up connection, and it took three minutes to load it. No article should take that long to load. - LA @ 09:13, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Splits
By splitting the articles up there would also be less opportunity for spoilers further in the series. Furthermore, more focus could be given to each individual page, which would lead someone to actually cite page numbers. At present, even though it is a synopsis, there is no citation to support anything. Not only does that fail to provide verification for any information therein, but it also makes the article useless to someone who requires page numbers (such as if they were making a report on the novel). In addition to these points, splitting the articles for the books into new pages would allow for more room for discussion of not only the series itself (the introduction is fleeting and there is a wealth of undisclosed information available in Piers Anthony's foreclosed Author's Notes) but also of the nature of each book. And, as mentioned above, it would give those wikipediers with slower connections quicker response. - Ristaron (talk) 07:19, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
- Over the next week or so I am going to work on splitting this into individual articles for each novel. --Captain-tucker (talk) 17:10, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Didn't take as long as I thought, split all done...--Captain-tucker (talk) 01:13, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
