Stormbulls & Choas features// Tricksters, Chaos and illumination

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From: Dave Pearton Biochemistry (pearton@unpsun1.cc.unp.ac.za)
Date: Mon 19 Apr 1993 - 20:44:38 EEST


I'm sorry to have taken so long to reply to this thread but my mailing system has been on the fritz.

Just a few thoughts on the Stormbull, chaos features debate:

  1. According to GOG "any creature possesing a chaotic feature is automatically an initiate of Primal Chaos." This I thing would rather make it impossible for the poor Storm Bull to make any sort of reparation/repair, especially as it then says "Initiation is permanent: even if the chaos feature is someday lost, there is no way to remove the chaos taint." I think the poor dude has had it 8^(, if he doesn't go out in a blaze of glory or suicide then I'm sure the cult Spirits of Reprisal will have a little to say to someone who becomes initiated into the source of all that they most hate!
  2. An interesting thought, would one be able to cast face choas on the stormbull (or indeed anyone) who had inadvertantly gained a chaos feature? If so what would the effect be - face chaos is designed to make a person stand his ground and fight any chaotic foe, even if he would ordinarily have run. Would thisgive the affected person the courage/desire to suicide when he realised that he was that chaotic?

Now to start (Hopefully) a completely new thread.

I am interested in the relationship between Trickster's and chaos. I know that Eurmal as one of the Lightbringers was opposed to chaos but unless all tricksters are aspects of a single God (which I feel is unlikely due to the presence and subsequent "disappearence" of Ratslaff from the Celestial court while Eurmal is also around). Also Trickster cults are pretty well ubiquitous. Against this is of course is the fact that the trickster "temples" work in unofficial harmony. But I think that we can safely say that there are many tricksters rather that a single trickster with many aspects. But this does not really affect the main question.

i.e. Could there be a trickster with choas rune assosiation? In GOG the runic assosiation "varies", I assume the Disorder rune and Illusion rune would predominate, but many others are also appropriate such as Hunger for the glutton aspect, death for the murderer aspect, fire for the firebringer aspect, and many others...... Thus I would see no problem for there to be a trickster cult with choas assosiations. What do other people think? And, more interestingly, what form would such a cult take? I have a few ideas, but I am most interested in what others think ;-)

On a related note regarding tricksters and illumination, would it be easier or harder for a trickster to become illuminated? Seeing as Tricksters already look at life from a different viewpoint to normal people it would appear easier, but as they are extremely self-absorbed and shallow would they be able to draw the deep insights required for illumination? Yet another paradox regarding tricksters, I love them ;-}

Just think a choatic, illuminated trickster (shudder)

Ah well, that was longer that I first thought - thank you for bearing with me.

Yak

A Trickster still looking for that Blood to Beer spell!

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