Re: Not having a Wyter

From: Greg Stafford <Greg_at_...>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:47:36 -0800

At 06:01 PM 1/28/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Obviously they don't have a Wyter, since that's a specifically
>Heortling (or at least Orlanthi) concept as far as I can see. Actually
>even if it wasn't, I can't see them bargaining with spirits, so a
>wyter wouldn't make sense.

Sartarite Wyters are not generally spirits, but are devas (aka daimones).

>I believe that a Vexilla serves more or less the same function, being
>the protective spirit bound into a unit's standard (Eagle of the Ninth
>homages here we come), but the army's hardly going to give them away.
A cexilla is a type of lares.

>Any other kind of guardian spirit they might have? How much of a
>disadvantage would not having one be?

Not *necessarily* a spirit, but a called a lares.

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