From: Nils Weinander (niwe@ppvku.ericsson.se)
Date: Fri 01 Jul 1994 - 18:42:04 EEST
Nils Weinander writing
Sandy's Dayzatar cult:
Great! One more thing I won't have to make up my own poor substitute for!
Barron on ritual and mundane actions etc:
> Now, this is brings up an interesting question. Is the belief in
>devotion enough? That is, if you believe your actions are proper strongly
>enough, will they produce the right results? I'd vote for "yes". This
>allows a GM to throw in sadistic CAs ("It's for your own good.") and gentle
>Uroxi ("The Bull wants us to fight chaos, not each other.").
I can see the Chalana Arroy healer approaching the sick and wounded
character, taking out needle and thread to sew his wound shut:
'Now this is going to hurt a bit, but such a brave warrior won't
mind that, would you?'
I.e. I agree completely.
NW>when a Humakt kisses the death rune on NW>her sword
> Isn't that redundant? :-)
Ahem, well, when she kisses the small death rune incised on the blade of the big death rune which is her sword? :-)
Bryan asks:
>Is it ever appropriate or possible for there to be shaman player characters?
>If so, what kinds lend themselves to this?
In our gaming group there is one shaman PC. He is rather odd though, since he is also a priest of Orlanth and since he has severed the ties with his tribe on a heroquest. Apart from that he is just disgustingly powerful, like all the characters in that campaign.
Joerg in response to my 'everything is Void' eastern philosphy: NW> I.e. the paradox of the Void: everything springs from nothing => NW> every object == nothing => every object == every other object.
>Hmm. Everything except dragons, who came from beyond the Void.
The dragons come from the soul of the Cosmic Dragon, which emerged spontaneously from the Void? Coming to think of it this 'all stems from the Void' sounds conspicuously like modern cosmology: all matter was originally confined to 0 volume, and then came into 'real' existence in the Big Bang.
Joerg on Teshnos and Zitro Argon/Dayzatar:
Right on!
>unless Yelm circled the spike on an orbital resembling the Fire Rune,
>the dot in the middle representing the Celestial Palace on the Spike. In
>this case days would have been measurable as the time between two
>eclipses. And we find a use for the Sun Chariot in Godtime!
Very neat.
>The torpor apparently stems from some mishap suffered by Hisgoranstor of
>Gach at the hands of a Melib god in prehistory - which might mean predawn.
>
>Would this date Soravatoor, Son of Heaven, founder of the Teshnan culture,
>even earlier, parallel to Genert's Garden and Tada's kingdom in the
>fertile Savannah of Prax?
Soravatoor? I must have missed something. Where is he mentioned? Anyway, the timeline seems good.
>Does it strike anyone as curious that Teshnos has been unscathed by
>any drowning when all of Genertela suffered some loss
...
>Maybe this very lethargy has saved Teshnos
>from the catastrophes?
Or some land sank, but the lethargic Teshnans just shrugged and accepted.
>Who were the inhabitants of Melib before Harstar conquered the island?
Either Teshnans under their own ruler, or Hsunchen of some variety I'd think.
Btw, nice analogy between GRoY and Kalevela. The latter is a must read for anyone interested in mythology, shamanism and heroquests.
/Nils W
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