From: Peter Linton Tracy (937058@bud.cc.swin.edu.au)
Date: Fri 13 Dec 1996 - 03:18:02 EET
A few days ago someone posed the question of who to become Aldryami
(sorry, forgot who). A simmilar topic cam up at Necronomicon, in Sydney, a
few years ago, about the method of Pavis's parentage. Having the good
fortune of having access to a 'Gregged' answer from our special guest,
the answer was vaguely along these lines; (Note there are no gorey
details, just a magic description)
*The parents of whishing a child undergo a fertility ritual on a runic
level, in which their seperateness's (differences) are shaken off, and their
sharedness enhanced. Both the Elf and Man are descended from father mortal, and
are stripped back to the man rune for the cross-fertilization to happen.*
I imagine something simmilar would have to happen, on a mythic level, for
the character to become an elf. I involves severing, or weakening old
runic ties, and forging new ones. Perhaps travelling "back-in-time" (read
myth) to change his parents identity, and lay some serious magic down on
his infant self, ala "Your not my father... it was really Bruce the
Spruce". ;-)
There is also the possibility of sending the person wandering naked in
the woods, to starve nd hallucinate on a minor quest, to experience
oneness-with-the-woods aftereating some of that special bark. The
experience is not neccisarily physical, but essenatilly spiritual,
although some orgiastic rebirthing ritual in mud and leaves sounds
appropriate. ;-)
I do, like the sound of nailing people to a tree, like something i've
been working on... or maybe hanging them from vines like the great scene
in Excalibur with all the dead questing knights, the fall down when
they're ripe...
Peter T
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