BTW: This brings up why I don't buy the idea of the newly made initiate or devotee having to kill someone during the process of assuming the new status. An initiate seems to have to have killed in battle before they can even try to get in, and I wouldn't allow a devotee who wasn't extensively blooded. I think killing is the one thing that the prospective Humakti has to have done before we get to any tests or ceremonies at all.
Gerald
Jane Williams wrote:
> --- simon_hibbs2 <simon.hibbs_at_...> wrote: >
> --- In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, Jane Williams
> > <janewilliams20_at_y...> wrote:
>
> > My PC isn't Orlanthi. The
> > > society she's moving in isn't Orlanthi. Her
> > interest
> > > in and knowledge of Orlanthi law is minimal.
>
> > This begs the question, which society does she move
> > in, and what's their law like?
>
> Reading back a long way to find the original
> context... hmm, we had drifted a long way, hadn't we?
>
> She's from Sun Town in Pavis, and left there as fast
> as she could, severing relations on the way (this was
> her main initial purpose in joining Humakt!). Since
> then she's been a mercenary, travelling all over.
> Prax, Tarsh, Nochet, a brief visit or two to Sartar
> (she doesn't like it), Whitewall, and no doubt lots of
> other places too. We left it deliberately vague. A lot
> of her contacts are from further west, so I expect
> she's been out there, too.
>
> At present she's in Prax. But "what society she moves
> in" varies from week to week, and she doesn't see
> herself as a part of any of them.
>
> The last question on Humakti law raised (and promptly
> mangled into one on Orlanthi law) wasn't directly
> relevant to her anyway, it was about whether someone
> could join Humakt in order to avoid the consequences
> of their past actions : if they'd committed a murder,
> for instance.
>
> Now I come to think about it, she *has* encountered
> that problem briefly: some new initiate joining the
> group as a follower who seems to have been a bandit
> before joining Humakt. She took the view that his
> previous life was just that, a previous life with no
> connection with his present existence. But then she's
> biased on the subject of severed relationships. And he
> had *already* joined the cult, so it's a slightly
> different question.
>
>
>
> =====
> Jane Williams
>
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