Re: Tricksters Leaving the path

From: bethexton_at_...
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 20:10:51 -0000

As to staying on the path, I would guess that before anyone voluntarily takes a trickster along on a quest they get them thoroughly bribed, intimidated, or both. I'm sure that many tricksters take great, great, glee from demanding odd seeming rewards....which may be inconsequential or may be one part of a larger scheme. You know, something like "I want a keg of beer, the chief's best tunic, a used bit and bridle, the hides of 27 mice, a broken cauldron, and the right to sing a song in the clan hall every windsday for a season."

I would also guess that tricksters, more than most mortals, get pulled into quests against their will. Trickster magic seems curiously appropriate to taking you to where you don't want to be sometimes. You know, you call on Eumal to hide you from the enraged horde that is chasing you, and step behind the wood pile, and next thing you know you are somewhere else and a muscular red-headed woman is shaking her spear at you....."go from frying pan to fire" may not be an Eurmali feat, but I bet it is a part of the lifestyle!

--Bryan

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