From: Carl Fink (carlf@panix.com)
Date: Mon 28 Apr 1997 - 03:36:13 EEST
Hasni Mubarak <richo@epix.net>:
>Ew, I just thought of something....since Humakt gets Sever Spirit
No -- it has always been stated that ordinary initiates can't learn
Sever Spirit in any case. Sometimes it's given to a mere initiate as
a special reward, IMG accompanied by another Geas. (No Gift, learning
Sever Spirit early *is* the Gift.)
>Sounds like a good idea to me, though I don't recall any being mentioned
>anywhere. Perhaps it's my zoologist's training, but I think Hsunchen are
>pretty cool and I'm all for new ones (within reason). I think some of the RW
>Inuit regard the seal as an important totem, so I'd say seal Hsunchen seem
>likely around the coast of the White Sea.
There's the Scottish (Scotch? Scots? I can never remember) tradition
of the silkie, a seal that can become human.
> What about dolphin Hsunchen somewhere in the Eastern Isles? They'd be
>fishermen and sailors, maybe somewhat like the RW Polynesians. That would
>allow them to travel great distances, and establish colonies on some pretty
>far off (to them) islands, making it more likely for them to contact PCs, and
>thus have some game relevance.
Maybe it's *my* zoologist's training, but I like this. How about if
they're like sea snakes or grunion -- they spend most of their lives
at sea, but come ashore to mate and/or give birth.
Wait, how's this: they exist only as males. Their human forms are
generally very attractive, and they reproduce by seducing human women,
whose male children will eventually become dolphins and swim away.
Female children will merely be unusually beautiful and good swimmers.
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Carl Fink carlf@panix.com
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the
exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."
- Frederick Douglass
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