[Glorantha] Soul Wound and unhealability

In message <Pine.GSO.4.58.0604040216170.2701@paju.oulu.fi> Mikko Rintasaari writes:
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>> A good point (hence my "just about" anything above).
>> Do we know which wound it was she could not heal?
>> Could it have been this one, or was it (reasonably
>> definitely) another?
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>Intuitively I'd say the Soul Wound (that is, vampirism) can not
>be healed, or at least it should be epically difficult (not just
>a question of finding a Chalana Arroy healer). In RQ a vampire is
>a true undead, and doesn't have the POW (soul) stat at all. What
>the vampire has is Magic Points (soul energy) that is slowly
>leaking out and must constantly renewed from victims.

The point was made that if a vampire's bite inevitably led to vampirism it effectivly took away the player's character in a single incident. By making the bite the first stage of a decline into full vampirism it introduces choices - what price is the character going to pay to get healing? where do they find it? what does it involve? And all the time resisting the lure of eternal "life".

I'd agree that a full vampire can only be "healed" by Humakt but MGF says there should be a lot of plot between being bitten and and becoming a vampire.

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