Re: Death Rune and creating undead

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_e8n__pk9JH6447Los2DE5usealD3r3qUmw3b7cNYt-0QoeyreFE3_Coii7IwXEdnbFh>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:23:01 +1300

At 11:09 p.m. 27/01/2009, you wrote:
>I think that Gark would like to be portrayed as the God of Eternal
>Peace to the foolish westerners who may be seduced into believing so,
>but his true power and his rune clearly link him to chaotic corpse
>enslavement. Or let us say, a chaotic version of hunger (one of
>many), the hunger rune itself is not chaotic in origin.

Two things - Gark isn't worshipped in Genertela so the scope for seduction of foolish westerners is pretty close to zero.

More importantly is the assumption that he's chaotic so must have nefarious motives. Cults can be objectively bad even if they have motivations which are justifiably good. For example Pocharngo the Mutator conveys the gift of freedom from the constricting confines of shape but to everybody else he's a cosmic cancer.

If Gark is the God of Eternal Peace through Zombieness then for all extenys and purposes, he should really believe that Eternal Peace can only be achieved by making everybody a Zombie.

>That is not to say that all zombie making is chaotic, but there is a
>chaotic version of this magical power and Gark is the patron of this.

Except that Thanatar and Vivamort do not have anything to do with Gark when they make Zombies - I'm not even sure that their zombies are even chaotic.

--Peter Metcalfe