[Glorantha] vampires and soul wounds

From: Taneli Taira <tantai82>
Date: Tue Apr 4 11:00:25 2006

> Jane, talking about the choices facing a character with a vampiric
> 'soul wound':
>
> >Of course, I can see just what option some characters
> >would take. Kill yourself. Right now, while you still
> >have your soul left. Or get someone else to do it for
> >you. Or, (more interesting!) do some quest or other
> >that has the same mythic effect. Humakti initiation
> >comes to mind here, for instance. If you're already
> >Humakti then life gets more difficult.

Simon (of the Hibbs variety):  

> I've been considering this for a while before posting.
>
> I think once you've got the soul wound, it's already too late.
> You nolonger have a complete soul. Even if you could find
> some way of removing the wound (which I doubt is possible),
> you're nolonger a complete being.

I'm with Simon here. I think the soul wound delivered by a vampire bite (most likely only bites given during some special ritual - I don't think that a regular bite given to a drunk in some back alley of Pavis is enough) taints the soul of the receiver enough to reduce his choices to: fighting his way towards vampirism as Vivamort did or some other form of damnation (I don't really know, what happens to souls, that don't get to their gods' otherworlds, but I guess the expression 'hell' has some relevance here). I don't think he has the choice of killing himself and getting to the otherside of his god, since he's already tainted with chaos.

Donald's idea on curing soul wounds:

> Another thought on curing "soul wounds". There could be some
> Lunar magic which diverts the "hunger to fill the void" into
> "hunger to feed the Goddess". Possibly Danfive Xaroni magic.
> Perhaps the source of the rumours of the Vampire Legion - they
> aren't strictly vampires any longer but they're terrifying
> people dressed in black with weird practices.

I like this. I've heard something about the lunars knowing the secrets of transcending chaos. Maybe that's the result, when a vampire 'transcends chaos'. It is after all a lunar secret so it would be appropriate, if it didn't really remove the chaotic hunger, but only redirected the hunger.

-Taneli Taira

	"Life on earth may be expensive,
	but it does include an annual free trip around the sun."

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