From: Sandy Petersen (sandyp@idcube.idsoftware.com)
Date: Wed 17 Aug 1994 - 07:52:59 EEST
In NOMAD GODS, it is explained that Hyena (the spirit entity)
was called upon by Genert to eat his corpse so it wouldn't fall into
Bob Luckin:
>I don't recall ever seeing/hearing the reason that Genert could be
>reconstructed from hyena skins.
In CULTS OF PRAX, members of a certain Issaries subcult are required to take pieces of Genert to him in order to repair him.
Basically, any hyena, by virtue of its descent, has a tiny little piece of dead Genert in him. Some hyenas or pieces of hyenas have more than others. The example used in CoP was a rune-carved bit of hyena skin, but hyena entrails, tails, etc. are also usable. The cult requirement to deliver bits of Genert to him is variable in its urgency depending on how magic the bit of Genert encountered is. Most priests wouldn't become a Desert Tracker just because they saw a hyena (but some might).
>From what you say, Genert deliberately asked Hyena to eat him when
>he died so he couldn't be resurrected.
Not so he couldn't be resurrected, but so he wouldn't be eaten/tainted/reanimated by Chaos.
>What *was* his original reasoning ?
Genert posited that letting his corpse fall into the hands of Chaos would be a bad thing. He enjoined Hyena with the task of eating him as soon after his death as possible. Hyena did so, and so Genert's body was not escheat to Chaos. It is unknown what the results would have been if Chaos had eaten him. Certainly he appears to be destroyed in the same degree that Splendid Yamsur is destroyed -- i.e., by Chaos, so non-resurrectable.
My statement, to wit: "don't forget WHY Genert had Hyena eat him.
>I see no reason to suppose that his original reasoning isn't still
>valid, in which case the resurrection of Genert could lead to
>Genert's death and the takeover of a chaotic land-god."
Is based on the suggestion that the entities that Genert feared are still around waiting for him.
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