Re: Orlanthi reincarnation

From: Greg Stafford <Greg_at_...>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 06:55:27 -0700


All of these things are possible as a story in your game.

At 08:44 AM 4/11/2001 -0000, you wrote:
>Hi,
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>in TR, p. 87, they describe the orlanthi afterworld, with the Nine
>Doors and so on.
>After some time, some of them go back to the middle world, in their
>own clan (not the holy ones, IIRC).
>I've many questions about this reincarnation and how it could be used
>in a HW game.
>
>I suppose most of them don't remember their previous life, but that
>some do ?
>Can it be the basis for some recurring love story ? (or beyond death
>hate). Fate would put some people together again and again ?
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>Do people change after this passage in Orlanth Hall ? Can other
>members of the clan, old ones, recognize such and such girl or boy as
>'Raggni born again' or is that not done ?
>Can you use divination to know who you were ? (I think not, but you
>may disagree).
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>Are you linked to the same god (or is there a tendency to worship the
>same god or aspect). I don't know, something like being called by
>Belveren over and over again ?
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>Could you have geases from your previous lives ? I think some celtic
>stories have events like these. And you'd have to do heroic things to
>break this cycle...
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>Do wives come back in their husband clan or their birth clan ? I
>suppose husband clan, as they have been adopted, but I'm not sure.
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>As the great heroes do not come back in their clan but become Umbroli,
>Daimone or parts of a god through a heroic cult, no one can be seen as
>a Hero born again. Too bad... I'd have loved something like this, with
>lunars trying to find and destroy the young girl or boy before she
>remembers who she was (a parallel with the chinese way to control de
>Lamas comes to mind).
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>Thanks,
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> Philippe
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