[Glorantha] Duck theories

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20>
Date: Fri Feb 3 17:00:26 2006

> As for me, I lean towards the ducks not being a
> creation
> of Delecti. The aren't a stitched creation, nor are
> they
> something that is a recent creation. Most of the
> stitched
> creations couldn't breed, at least not enough to
> sustain
> their numbers to survive hundreds of years in the
> wild.

I'd go along with that. But, one of my own pet theories is that the EWF did have *some* impact on the ducks. One of those hazy things we've "always known" is that the ducks believe they lost the power of flight due to a curse from the Evil Emperor, and Orlanth has promised to give it back to them (and hasn't quite got round to it yet for some reason or other).

Well... suppose that at one point some Orlanth representative or other did indeed promise to give them wings? Only the suggested method involved having the brain and tongue split, and doing a bit of waltzing? Final end result, if you get it right - wings. And scales. No, this probably wasn't the standard Orlanth cult. "Obduran the Flyer was the first dragonfriend to also be an Orlanthi" says KoS, so one of his followers.

The ducks of course don't quite remember the details of this.

And then there's the question of who the Evil Emperor was who cursed them?                 

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