From: Alex Ferguson (abf@interzone.ucc.ie)
Date: Thu 26 Jun 1997 - 01:25:09 EEST
Chris Bell posts 9K, with _no quotes_! ;-) After I'd picked myself up
off the floor, I was moved by the spirit of the Reply button to comment...
> Orlanth cultists would IMO share with the Humnakti the use of many
> different weapons aside from swords, due to Orlanth defeating so many
> deities and taking their weapons during GodTime...
Yup, there's lots of RQ2 stuff to this effect for Orlanth. Elemental
mastery, etc. Archetypal myth of Magic Weapon subcult: "Orlanth
beats up [name of your element here]. Orlanth gets to use [weapon of
element, here], and wins [some spell of element, here]. Har-har-har!"
However, Humakti are big sword-fetishists, let's face it. A cult
which has a gift/geas system which "rewards" not using swords is
obviously not so keen on these mere lesser weapons. Using a sword
is Devout for a Humakti, using other weapons is merely Expedient.
> Who thinks
> that Chalana Arroys would be allowed to disarm opponents with hand to
> hand techniques or parrying weapons, use shields, or put opponents into
> non-damaging holds, a la greek wrestling or Aikido?
As a sometime Uke (Japanese for "hapless fool") on the end of these
"non-damaging" aikido techniques, I _don't_ think they ought to be
allowed to do that! ;-) I do think, though, that Arroyans (and the
other 'subcults' of same, which may or may not be actually worshipped
as CA) vary a fair bit in how they interpret the non-violence schtick,
though they all have it in some form or other. I also reckon that
the ones who have the most anally-retentive, legalistic, do-nothing-
that-even-_seems_-a-teeny-bit-violent interpretation are, by and large,
the ones with the the niftiest healing magic. Woooo, didn't that sound
neo-Objectivist of me?
(One) Truly,
Alex.
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