At 08:39 AM 11/21/2003 -0800, Greg Stafford wrote:
> >He can still be asked to pay the weregild and/or be targeted by angry
> relatives of the deceased.
>
>Yea, sure, the wame way that you could ask a river that drowned your son
>to pay weregeld, or ask a tree whose limb fell of in a storm and crushed
>his head to pay weregeld. Ask and ask, but no one in their right mind
>expects to be paid. Humakti are forces of nature, not people.
But Glorantha is a place where you _could_ bring a lawsuit against
a force of nature and be taken seriously. Heck, you might even get weregild
from the tree or the river....
Peter Larsen