12.4 Details on the divine globes in city patron temples.

Within the temple of those cities presently benefitting from the figurehead of a divine patron one may find, at the centre of the patron's temple (usually in the altar room) an enormous translucent globe containing, at first glance, swirling essences that periodically form themselves into scenes involving prominent members of Avalon society. These scenes are, in fact, merely a superficial indicator of the deeper purpose of these divine globes for they are an embodiement of the past decade of life and times of their citizens. Battles great and small, works public and private, conflicts, bloodshed, youngsters growing more wise; indeed everything in some way contributes to the great gaseous substance of the divine altarpiece globe.

Everything that happens involving a citizen in some way has an impact on the globe, whether of successful consequence or not. Only a range of actions involving youngsters yet to have graduated the academy are excluded from the globe's masterful eye; some, let it be said, but not all.

It is possible and indeed beneficial, at times, to focus the divine eyepiece, to heighten its perceptive resonance, to lend greater importance to times of triumph and deeds of worth to one's homeland - especially if one knows a special effort is being made at a particular time. Thus, come each New Year, the amalgamation of the past decade's deeds can be biased, by citizens of each city, to hold an idealised version of events. It is the 'value' of this idealised version of the decade that defines the powers that can be called upon by a citizen from his or her city's globe. Nothing escapes the globe, whether positive or negative, but a citizen can nudge an event or act's relative importance and this, over a ten year period, can have enormous significance to the end-benefits a globe affords its homeland. The power ready-for-release by citizen call to action from the dawning of each New Year's Day is (while it lasts) one of the mightiest influences in the land.

Thus there are two aspects to working with the divine globe of one's homeland. The first is to heighten the importance (in the eyes of the globe's record) of deeds that bring honour to a city, and the second to call upon and utilise the amalgamation of the past decade gathered, at any given time, within the confines of the globes glass-bound interior.

See HELP GLOBEIDEALS for specific information on binding over your triumphs to the globe's all-seeing eye, and HELP GLOBEACTIONS to see details of the effects that can be brought to bear by dint of the divine globe's accumulated content. Many of these systems are intertwined and so you may also be interested in the contents of HELP REPUTATION for methods in which guilds can directly influence divine globe might, above and beyond the actions of the citizen.

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