[Glorantha] Re: Soul Wound and unhealability

From: Donald R. Oddy <donald>
Date: Thu Apr 6 02:00:28 2006


In message <006101c65872$a0fba440$6406a8c0@oemcomputer> "Roderick and Ellen Robertson" writes:

>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.

That assumes that there is something holding the soul together (the balloon) and the soul itself is inside. I see the void as attached to the soul itself and bits breaking off. Granted a sword is a clumsy instrument to sever the connection and will probably leave some bits of soul attached to the void but they would have gone soon enough anyway.

>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.

Agreed, but MGF says there's a period when a PC is heading towards being a vampire but isn't yet. The discussion is to work out what that process involves.

-- 
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
Received on Wed 05 Apr 2006 - 16:18:54 EEST

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