[Glorantha] Re: Soul Wound and unhealability

> The way I see the void is a spiritual vacuum, it sucks away
> spirits, souls, essences given the chance. A vampire gives
> the void that opportunity when it bites and the victim is
> wounded. At that stage if the connection to the void is
> severed a healer can treat the symptoms and the body will
> recover. Untreated the void will eventually suck the person
> dry leaving a zombie. Vivamort teaches a way of stealing
> the life force from others to replace that lost to the void
> but the vampire's soul (spirit or essence) has already gone
> by the time the transformation is complete. So when the
> vampire's connection to the void is severed it no longer has
> a normal soul but bits and pieces of other peoples some of
> who are probably dead. A Humakti will just kill what's left
> and the bits either return to a person who's still alive
> or go to whatever afterlife they're entitled to. Since the
> vampire's soul has already gone into the void death is
> oblivion.

This certainly doesn't fit *my* view of Humakt (nor, really of vampirism or the void, or vacuum...).

Think of the person's "otherworld side" (essence, soul, spirit) as a water balloon. If you want to go with the "soul wound" theory, then it's like the water balloon has a small leak - not instantly fatal, but will drain the balloon if you don't keep refilling it. Humakt is a sword. Fixing a leaky balloon with a sword isn't going to be pretty for the balloon.

Frankly, I don't think that vampirism is something you can "get over" like the flu; once a vampire, always a vampire (or a dusty corpse...). There are no ex-vampires wandering around.

RR
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- Richelieu Received on Wed 05 Apr 2006 - 06:34:37 EEST