[Glorantha] Re: Glorantha Digest, Vol 12, Issue 517

• Andrew Dawson <asmpd01_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm working on a practice quest for a CA PC in my
> game, based on the
> realization that a CA practice quest may be a good
> way to deal with an
> unhealable wound that has left a comrade near death.

Jane Williams:

>Sounds good in principle, but one problem I can see is
>that the LBQ is not about curing an unhealable wound,
>it's about bringing someone back from being dead.

That's a very good point. In the LBQ, Chalana Arroy is faced with a wound she cannot heal. This implies to me that she had always been able to heal the wounds she had encountered before, and being unable to heal a wound is a new experience, from which she learns some deep mystery. My guess is that the wound is unhealable because it is unlike any other wound, and that it's 'chaoticness' - the wound is a chaos taint. From this Chalana Arroy learns a secret about the nature of herself (i.e. the nature of healing itself) and the nature of the cosmos.

Simon Hibbs Received on Tue 02 Jan 2007 - 11:43:24 EET