[Glorantha] Re: Soul Wound and unhealability

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20>
Date: Wed Apr 5 11:00:16 2006

> 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

Caveat - sometimes. I expect that's what you meant, but let's be sure. This has to be a deliberate act by the vampire.

> 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.

And here comes the interesting bit: can the party sever the connection fast enough?

> Untreated the void will eventually suck the
> person dry leaving a zombie.

where "eventually" is a highly variable time span (as long as the plot requires). Leaving a zombie? Yes, I suppose so, if nothing else happens.

> 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.

I think I might suggest that if some is still left (and if there isn't, there's no personality left to teach) the first act of feeding will "flush" out the last remains. Make that first feed a significant choice. This probably links in with the idea of the first feed being one of their own kin as a sacrifice.

> 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.

Kill 'em all, let Humakt sort them out :)

> So I don't think Humakt has a general ability to
> send a
> being to oblivion. It doesn't fit the concept of a
> god who separates the living from the dead.

Yes, makes sense. For Humakti, Death is a subset of Separation.                                   

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