[Glorantha] Destroying Vivamort

Simon Hibbs

> The Hero Plane, or perhaps the Underworld actualy but yes
> I think this is perfectly reasonable. That doesn't mean that all
> vampires would necesserily dissipate into nothing as a result,
> but they'd surely end up with some pretty awesome anti-vampire
> magic as a result.

"Killing" Vivamort on the Heroplane or such would seem like it should just get you nasty anti-vampire magic. It would take something massively larger to destroy him in such a way that all his magic would be gone, as per the Windstop. (Although since he is nowhere near the size of god that Orlanth is, I would expect an equivalent effort would get rid of vampire magic across all of Glorantha, and not just a limited region.)

> From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_yahoo.co.uk>

> hmm.... I'd better keep an eye on those Swords
> players. At least one once expressed a desire to do
> just that, and it looks like it's more possible than
> I'd realised.

At least to some extent.

> Well, we know roughly what happens when your god dies.
> Magic from that god stops working. The interesting
> question here is whether the ability to "eat" other
> people's souls to replace your own is magic powered by
> Vivamort, or a chaos feature that's become part of the
> vampire.

I think I lean towards it being really the ONLY thing taught by Vivamort. In essence, that's the key thing to being a vampire. Assuming any vampiric magic comes from Vivamort at all, it's that. The other idea is that the ability to feed on life force is simply a chaos feature common to vampires, in which case Vivamort isn't really important except mythically as the first vampire and original source of this particular chaos feature.

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Donald Oddy
> Subject: Re: [Glorantha] destroying Vivamort
> The big problem is going to be tracking and cornering Vivamort.
> I'm sure there's a myth of Humakt challenging Vivamort and him
> fleeing to hide in the darkness. The PCs are going to need some
> pretty powerful finding magic to counter that.

I agree. It seems the tracking and forcing a final confrontation would be the big bit. Also, note that there is probably NO myth of anyone successfully doing that from Godtime, because it seems Vivamort just avoided being in any of the combats and such during the Great Darkness (like a number of chaos "gods").

LC Received on Mon 10 Apr 2006 - 07:45:59 EEST