Re: Ghouls

From: Greg Stafford <glorantha1_at_Ev-aT2XD8tnel7nkUA0xcJDXvPdUSNM7BUWXZYz70UITGsCgGEnvr7aB9QxgpHb_v>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:40:58 -0700


YGWV On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:27 AM, bryan_thx <bethexton_at_Z8jzDDVgfTcOa-F5FHGVhwGb2mcuoV9s2KWciZwNSRVhUEWnghjBliu03rc_bakfdGjl5hgbFCEIWNE581s.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

> wrote:
> >
> Just riffing off of Greg's mention that the elder races largely speaking
> eat their dead, and that ghouls are not humans....maybe they came into
> existence as an attempt to become something more primal than humanity, more
> akin to the elder races? Perhaps their magic would all tie into the man
> rune (and probably death too).

Quite possible. They were never human at all, just one of the many many ancient races that differentiated from the ancestral Man Rune.

> To their way of viewing things they are more pure "man" than are mere
> humans.
>
> All just ideas.
>

That's been bandied about before, and I do think that it is a possible ghoul belief, but unlikely to be known everywhere.

-- 
Greg Stafford
Game Designer


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