From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Fri 04 Aug 2000 - 03:06:22 EEST
Andrew Larsen:
> I was mulling over Eurmal's functions yesterday, when it occurred to me
> that Eurmal is also the scapegoat.
He indeed is. David D. (I think it was) posted a good (i.e. nasty
and wince-making) example of this from a SFC game, many moons ago.
> Yet GoG lists no corresponding runespell
> for this aspect. So it occurred to me that there might be a Eurmal
> runespell/feat "Take Blame".
He doesn't need one: rather, everyone else simply enacts 'Blame
the Trickster', and the Eurmali fails to move out of the way quickly
enough...
> Can anyone think of a myth that would revolve around Eurmal being blamed
> for something that *gasp* wasn't his fault?
Not in any detail off the top of my head, but a common pattern would, I
think, be myths where Eurmal does something wrong, gets away with it,
then gets either mistakenly blamed or deliberatedly 'scapegoated' for
something he didn't. Thus it's always morally and mythically
justifiable to punish the Trickster for anything you like, even in
blatant defiance of the plain facts of what he _could possibly_ have
done, much less what it's been proven he did, since "Even if he maybe
didn't do that, he sure must have done something!". Trickster is, after
all the Cosmic Irony specialist...
Cheers,
Alex.
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