From: David Cake (davidc@cs.uwa.oz.au)
Date: Sun 17 Apr 1994 - 11:35:15 EEST
Who are the mysterious Vadeli? An ocean going people, atheistic sorcerers, and
ancient rivals of the Brithini.
> They are blue
Only the Blue Vadeli are blue and they are now generally regarded as extinct (a likely story ...). The Blue Vadeli where the nobles, the Red Vadeli are warriors (quite frequently pirates), and the brown Vadeli are sailors, and most of the other useful things.
> They are nasty
They are generally regarded as being rather amoral, and fairly ruthless.
> They have something to do with some "missing caste"
The Blue Vadeli.
> They are immortal
I was unaware of them being immortal.
> They (or some of them?) are sorcerors
The Vadeli, rather than having specialist sorcerers, practice sorcery appropriate to their caste and duties. I generally take this to mean that even Vadeli of what are assumed to be low ranked and unmagical occupations in other cultures might be quite accomplished sorcerers within their specialty. It would not be unusual to find an experienced carpenter with several sorcerous manipulations, and stored power, and high sorcerous skills - but virtually no spells that do not involve wood, for example. This means that their warriors can be very dangerous, because they can be quite skilled practitioners of combat sorcery.
Little is known of Vadeli philosophy (by me, anyway) - I would appreciate some further explanation, particularly of the philosophical differences between the Vadeli, and the Brithini (on the surface fairly similar, though I expect the Vadeli place more emphasis on individual prowess and merit).
Cheers David Cake ---------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Fri 10 Oct 2003 - 01:33:43 EEST