If any demons have, they aren't telling people.

As a rule, demons don't even trust their own spawn very much.

But I suppose they might eventually figure out some ways of doing it.

How one create God Pools is a very closely guarded secret that only the gods know.

My suspicion is that if a demon were to figure out how to create a god pool, and have a group to share with....that demon and its friends would all sort of die the true death and people would start hearing about some new religion that was recruiting. I.e. The names have been changed to protect the formerly damned.

I wouldn't be surprised if the gods have some "gatekeepers" to keep their club private.

My guess if people get too close, bad things start happening.

Notice how all those demigods in mythology start having horrible travails?

I don't think it's a coincidence.

Definitely not omnipotent!

They wish!

Well...all I can say about those mythologies is this...at one time those stories were part of what people called religion. The stories of Zeus, Heracles, Aphrodite, etc. That was what human beings in ancient Rome and Greece, in all their so-human folly, believed to be 'gospel' those stories were their Bible. it was mainly oral, but eventually written down.

If you can question how those people could believe in that non-sense, they you must also see why someone from outside of the Judeo-Christian-Muslim world might say the same about the stories in the books of those religions.

So it's interesting that you ask if they are omnipotent, the ancient gods were never omnipotent, the JCM G-d is omnipotent, and if you ask me, an omnipotent, omniscient deity brings up even more questions than those posed by the ancient gods...

But then, I am a demon, it is my job to spread heresy in all forms.

But, of course, it's always better to read non-fiction, like DoA than to read fiction like these other books.

Hmmm

I would doubt it since the humans and Los Alvar are more often allies...however, there are some weird treaties between the light and dark so who knows how that would play out.

I did not get the impression that the humans of Astlan care all that much about others knowing their true name, although it might be that keeping their true name hidden is so much second nature that they actually never even mention that their full names are not their actual names...

Well...humans do have true names, but may not know it...

It seems to me that the more magical a race is, the more it is concerned with True Names. Is this because they realize the overall import, or is it because True Names have more affect on someone, the more magical they are?

Don't know. Never tried binding and elf. But then I can't bind anyone or things so it's sort of moot.

Yeah, that's what a lot of non-wizard humans think.

Soon enough, you'll learn better...

I think on this world, at least in more organized countries, the true names are numbers. At least, if certain people get a hold of those, they can do some pretty nasty stuff to your life...

What if a demons true name cannot be pronounced. Humans can only make so many sounds.

I've been discussing this issue a long time ago. In reality it is quite very common to mispronounce foriegn names.

We can make hundreds of sounds for our language (also known as phonemes) but in a spoken language we limit the number of phonemes we use (the phoneme set). Spoken languages have from a dozen to more than a hundred of phonemes in thier phoneme set.

Added some natural complexity of the language, the problem here is that it requires practice to be able to pronounce a phoneme properly. This is especially troublesome when a person has to produce a phoneme that is not part of that person's native language's phoneme set. What often happens is that they replace it with a similar sounding phoneme. Japanese speakers for example has trouble creating the /l/ phoneme as it is not present in the japanese language phoneme set and often replace it with the /r/ phoneme. Of course saying 'rock' instead of 'lock' (unrock it!) results to confusion.

In Tom's case, his name must be Astlanian enough so that natives there can pronounce it properly.

Of course if there are aliens, as Tizzy implied, then they might just have names that humans physically can't pronounce. Say what if the alien speaks in supersonic? What if the aliens are birdlike and uses birdlike tweets and calls in their language? Humans can't speak that!

Well, while we are also speaking about languages, how many languages are there in Astlan? Also are there French speaking demons, Cantonese speaking demons, and Latin speaking demons? Do Ramses still remember how to speak Ancient Egyptian? What is Exador's native language? I should have ask about Tizzy's original native tongue, but I seem to be uninterested about it somehow.

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