Re: Bats & Wolves

From: Nick Brooke (Nick_Brooke@compuserve.com)
Date: Tue 11 Aug 1998 - 07:49:11 EEST


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Erik muses exquisitely on low-culture Vampires, and adds:

> Where do the bats and wolves come from? Any nice mythic connections
> to explain them? Don't know if there were any other in the real world
> other than that they were considered generally nasty.

Both bats (cf. the Crimson Bat) and wolves (cf. the Gbaji Wars) are tainted
by Chaos, in an orthodox Orlanthi viewpoint. I once thought that maybe
Western vampires could shapechange to wolves, and Pelorian vampires could
shapechange to bats. This would mean that the vampires from the part of the
world where Peloria and the West overlapped would be particularly nasty.
Anyone surprised to learn that this is Carmania?

I don't think this any more, BTW, but someone out there may.

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