From: Peter Metcalfe (P.Metcalfe@student.canterbury.ac.nz)
Date: Sat 20 Apr 1996 - 03:59:58 EEST
Mark Mohrfield:
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[Malian spirit of Reprisal]
>Well OK, but I think that this is kind of hard on a healing cult. After all
>the spirits are supposed to attack anyone, presumably including the rune
>master's former patients.Imagine what happen to Downtown Glamour if someone
>went bad! One evil priest could get the cult banned.
Clearly Society was to blame for the Priest turning Evil and was Punished
Accordingly. There are plenty of gods who send furies which affect entire
societies due to the failure of one person. Orlanth sends Daga, Goodness
knows what Magasta sends and so on. Given that this occurs in a highly
urbanized area, I think retribution will be swift in securing the Priest's
body and disposing of it.
>If you do want to keep this in the cult I can see the CA priestesses
>claiming at least one advantage over their opponents
I don't think the CA healers are striving to compete is with the Malian
Cult. They treat wounds and other trauma while Malia treats diseases.
Nils Weinander:
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Me>>I think that some parts of Kralorela are virtual tinderboxes (like
>>Boshan) and need only a spark before widespread violence flares.
>I won't challenge this, but I would like to know what conflict you see
>waiting to flare up.
Boshan, the capital of which 'never pays its taxes on time' is the most
pressing problem. The people appear to have forcibly been incorporated
into the Empire and never forgotten it.
The province of Wanzow is probably chaffing under its unclean status
and high taxes they have to pay for the 'purification rites' to 'cure'
them of pollution by foreigners IMO.
I think the Imperial Adminstration in the province of Shiyang has lapsed
to such a degree that Warlords with Private Armies are prevalent there.
Although their focus is on repelling incursions from Bliss in Ignorance,
rivalry is springing up amongst them and could soon render the province
ungovernable.
There's probably others.
Me>>A capable Emperor would solve the current problems of Kralorela long
>>ago; but as Godunya is nearing the end of his reign, the Highest
>>Authorities are devoid of new intiatives akin to what happened in the
>>last years of Brezhnev
>But Godunya isn't senile and dying. He is vital and magically active.
At the expense of the material world IMO. He's not at all quite there
most of the time as he 'governs the far realms' these days. Fortunately
Godunya does have brief periods of lucidity in which he ablely turns his
attention to mortal affairs.
Nigel Smith:
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[Inactive disease spirits]
>But the inactive disease spirits can still infect others, shed minor
This has not been stated in da roolz and the only justification for the
If an inactive disease spirit still infects others than there would be
>spirits to infect places, etc. Worship of Malia protects only the
>worshipper and so doesn't equate to a cure.
interpretation that inactive disease spirits do infect others was that
it was in Malia's 'nature' to do so.
little difference between this status and that of an involunatary Malian
initiate. Furthermore the information that the diseases that are most
likely to turn inactive are found in marshy areas seems to me to indicate
that a parallel with the RW disease Malaria is being sought.
If you are still not convinced that inactive diseases = noninfectionous,
then I will say that IMO the spiritual technique of the Malian Healing
Cult turns the disease spirits noninfectionous as well as inactive.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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