Turn Undead magic
This affects an undead creature (skeleton, zombie, mummy, ghoul or vampire).
I think undead have to be embodied. Otherwise how are they deadalive or alivedead?
Ghosts are plainly the dead. Wraiths are a particular kind of ghost.
>From the Creatures Book. P42.
A wraith is a ghost formed when an individual's feelings at death are of overwhelming frustration and hate. Wraiths are malignant to all life. Wraiths appear as skeletal and usually rotted and putrid-looking spectral forms. Their appearance of often heralded by a sudden blast of freezing, foul air.
Wraiths inhabit ruins, abandoned temples, haunted spots, and the spirit world. They are often bound to the site of their death.
I think the confusion must come from a connection with Tolkien's works where wraiths ("Wraiths on wings!!") were embodied beings both in this world and the other.
Hth
M
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In message <gstebd+pl8i_at_eGroups.com> "xavierllobet" writes:
>Hi everyone,
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>Are wraiths considered "undead"? Are they anathema to Humakti?
>Would they be affected by "Turn undead" spells? And ghosts?
>What do you think? :)
>From Anaxial's Roster "Ghosts are malign spirits of the unhallowed
or unhappy dead..." That's pretty much the Humakti definition of
undead.
There's no mention of wraiths so the answer depends on what exactly they are in Glorantha. In most fantasy worlds they seem to be a variation on ghosts.
Personally I think most Humatki tend to have a pretty wide definition of undead - if you chop its head off and it gets up again its probably undead.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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