Walking corpses; Shamans

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From: Colin Watson (watson@csd.abdn.ac.uk)
Date: Thu 06 Oct 1994 - 18:21:34 EET


Erik:
> > I tend to adhere to the idea that newly-dead spirits retain their STR, CON
> > and DEX for a while after death (though these characteristics are fairly
> > useless in the spirit-world and tend to dissolve in a matter of days).
>
> I don't know. It sounds like a good thought [...], but I feel DEX,STR and
> CON are part of the body, not the soul.

But think of it like this: DEX & STR are what allow a creature to move around and interact with the physical world; CON gives the ability to respire - breathing, eating etc. Upon death these faculties depart from the body immediately. (Good thing too, otherwise corpses of the recently dead could wander about mindlessly (with no INT or POW) as do animate Skeletons.)

But corpses don't breathe or move around; they don't have STR or DEX or CON. The question is where do these faculties go? I suggest they depart with the spirit, and if the spirit is recovered then they return with the spirit. _

> > If there was to be a ShamanPak[...]
> For something similar, although it is non-RQ and
> non-Glorantha, I recommend "Shamans" for Ars Magica.

Having recently acquired this supplement I heartily second Erik's sentiment. "Shamans" contains some very evocative descriptions of the Spirit World - not the grey and featureless place RQ3 describes. And remarkably good value for 8 quid or so.

___
CW.

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