From: Thomas Doniol-Valcroze (tconrad@orbital.fr)
Date: Sun 27 Apr 1997 - 23:52:14 EEST
Greetings everyone.
Hungry Killer Whales?
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James Frusetta, answering to my statement that orca do not eat humans:
>Really? I thought they'd snarf down one if they got hungry enough.
Well, they never got me... It's enough for me to trust them. :)
>And for Killer Whales, Dolphins are trollkin! ;) It is true that Orca
>eat dolphins...?
Yep. Sometimes. When they get hungry enough. Or if they are looking for =
sport. But most of the time, they prefer easier preys. Killer Whales are =
lazy fellows: they don't run after agile dolphins if they can get =
something slower...
But you are close to the truth when you say that for Killer Whales, =
Dolphins are trollkins: Killer Whales and Dolphins are kin indeed.
In fact, Killer Whales *are* Dolphins. They are the biggest (and the =
smartest?) of dolphins.
As for their gloranthan origin, well, despite the parallels with trolls, =
I would still head for Ceto=EF and their kind.
But maybe there is a common ancestor somewhere.
I do like Daniel McCluskey's hypothesis:
>We could also have Korasting as the mother of Cetaceans by some sea
>god, with Sperm Whales (mighty hunters of the Dark Depths) as the
>"mistress" variety pre-darkness and orca as the "dark troll" analogue.
David Cake:
>I imagine the orca originating from the same roots as the cetoi
>triolini, that is basically the rape of sea powers by the storm gods.
I thought that there was no rape in Ceto=EF's case, that the union was =
voluntary, and that it was why Ceto=EF did like humans (unlike Pisco=EFs).
On something different now: About Light Servants:
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Ok. Here is my problem:
One of my players has a yelmalion. He is an initiate, and doing =
allright. He feels it may be time to move on (and get some reusable rune =
magic). So he asked me what were the requirements for acolyte status, =
besides being well seen by the cult.
So I read the requirements (both in GoG and in SC): you've got to have, =
just like priests, 50% in Ceremony, know Lightwall and Farsee, 10 points =
of rune magic (a rule with which you may, or may not, agree) and... 80% =
in Read/Write your native language.
Wow. 80%? I understand that for a Priest. But for a simple Light =
Servant?
Well, I said to myself, why not?
But then I looked at every described NPC-Light Servant I could find. =
And guess what? Many of them do not fulfill this requirement.
So what should I do? Tell my player "Take a year off and study your =
writing skills" ?
Invictus doesn't. Fethal (in Shadow on the Borderland) doesn't.
(Okay, Belvani does. But he is the only one, and he's weird anyway...)
What would you do?
Yours, Thomas.
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