When you're called by Eurmal, you are called by Eurmal. No One Can Make You Do Anything is fine in theory, but when a god is knock knock knocking on the door of your soul, saying "no" may be far worse than anything saying "yes" will do to you.
But remember, the
>trickster only gets the bad end of the stick half the time! And every once
>in a while they manage to pull the clan's bacon out of the fire when no-one
>else could. So we put up with their japes and sophomoric tricks for the
>lessons they can teach us, the entertainment they can give us, the scapegoat
>when we really need one, and the occasional good deed.
And, of course, because Orlanth gave Eurmal his protection. You can keep Tricksters off your Tula (although a pissed off Trickster would be somewhere between an amusement and a very dangerous enemy -- Pied Piper anyone?), but once the Trickster has been admitted to the clan, they have a relationship with the clan chief that breaking is a very great disrespect to Orlanth. It can do the Chief's rulership magics much good if he does not act like Orlanth. A Trickster is good and bad, but abusing the link between Trickster and Chief is really bad. Abusing the Trickster, of course, is good fun and good sense.
Peter Larsen
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