From: Peter Metcalfe (P.Metcalfe@student.canterbury.ac.nz)
Date: Mon 16 Dec 1996 - 04:28:35 EET
Philip Hibbs:
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>IMO, Habitual eating of human flesh could result in transformation into
>an ogre, and eventually the stat gains as well, as the cannibal becomes
>more than human. They probably think that 'normal' humans are in fact
>watered down by all the crap food they eat, and that Ogre-level STR and
>CON should be the norm.
They could believe this and probably do but it's not the case with
a large number of people. The Cannibal Cult of Prax eat human
flesh and while they do get stat gains from doing so, they aren't
ogres. Praxian humans are also know to eat mockpork from time to
time and who knows what the Ignorants get up to in their Bloody
Sun rites. There may be some tribes in Pamaltela that eat
their dead as a sign of respect.
Therefore I think that becoming an Ogre represents a chaotic
tainting of the spirit by Cacodemon rather than simple
cannibalism. This taint allows them increased stats at the
expense of their humanity.
- --Peter Metcalfe
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