Re: Geasa

From: Keith <keith.nellist_at_Kjqq3wbRpPgJeTZhGKe1jXPlM2PDOJeV9oECW95vGIgRVbwLb_ZDXZVGfUYbJT>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:01:45 -0000

For Than, my feeling is that they are more like a mental illness than a sign of piety and commitment. Like OCD, or autism, or aspergers syndrome, Yelmophobia perhaps, even drug addiction. The god here is a mindless, headless body wandering fens in the dark stealing heads and eating bodies. These should be unconcious actions. There is no choice, although perhaps they can be overcome.

I don't see it the same for Yelmalio or Humakt. Those ARE concious choices made to be pious and emulate their deity.  

> IMO, essentially taking on a geasa is accepting a limitation, making a sacrifice of some of one's choices. I saw them as pure personal choices by initiates, but your posts highlight they're at the very core of their religion. You don't take a geas out of devotion, EVERYBODY gets a Geas - and how they respect it does show their piety / commitment.
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> Geasa thus should be treated as any other HQ "skill", perhaps as a flaw.