Aether and Sons, Inc.

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From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Thu 21 Apr 1994 - 23:03:59 EEST


Joerg:
> But all Storm deities are
> subcults of Orlanth, or at least Umath, in a certain sense, as all Solar
> cults are subcults of Aether, and his offspring and creations.

Personally I think Aether smacks very suspiciously of being a construct to `explain' the relationship of Yelm and Lodril, which show every sign of having arisen separately. (This doesn't seem to be true of Dayzatar, which sounds a lot like a Yelmic mythic add-on. Perhaps why Sandy and I come to blows about his cult now and then.)

Sandy:
> I like gritty, hungry, violent trolls that make no apologies for the
> fact that they ENJOY eating sentient life.

I don't think this is the case for most trolls, though I'd grant it in the case of Zorak Zorani and some of the Fun Chaps hanging out in the Kingdom of Ignorance and Koromandol. But most, I reckon, as simply indifferent to the sentience of their food, and certainly have no compunctions about eating anything they're willing to kill. Trolls are likely to find humans willingness to slaughter sentients in droves, then fussily refuse to eat them as morally questionable.

Now, if you'd said `ogres', you'd have had a fairly unassailable case. A fine distinction, but aren't they all?

Alex.

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