Many things change between the books of Norman and the workings of the world to which his imagination gave birth. Any who have ever had a child, understand the difference. Things do not go exactly as they may have been planned during conception and gestation. A child grows and learns His own mind and develops His own habits.

We are the children of Gor, but we are not the recreations of what Norman did. If We were, My FC could only be a panther woman, as that is the genesis of her name and I assure you that there was no Keats in the books of Norman.

The difference is that our lives, while based on his writing, have their own breath and their own actions. We are loose now in the playground of Our own imaginations and that playground is GorChat. Certainly there are rules to Our roleplay, but they are not bounded in detail point-for-point by what happened in the books.

Many contradictions would occur if they were. What book do we use to describe Tharna? Who controls it? That is the decision of the site and the people who populate it.

Many times people use quotes to support their assertions of rightness. Sometimes, when these quotes describe custom or tradition, they are very useful. Other times, when they limit what a person can do within the structure that has been decided, they are both contradictory and destructive.

I hope we will not fall into the abyss that Urthen clergy find themselves when they suggest that literal interpetations of their good book rule behavior.

This is true for many reasons. First of all, it is only the excerpted passages to which they want to adhere and secondly, it is too easy to find a passage that contradicts the one that they quote.

We are based on the books of Gor and they are fine acts of imagination, but we can now use our own imaginations to work from there.