>What is this thing about Brithini not being mortal? They can die just as
>well as any other humans, they just:
>A, Do not age unless they break the Rules, which seems like some kind of
>Immortality-like sorcery to me - the Land of Ninja has a variant of the
>Immortality sorcery spell which is permanent, but requires the recipient
>to observe some taboo or another. "Obey the strict rules of your caste"
>seems like a good taboo like me.
I think the Brithini have uncovered a set of rules for immortality. I suspect their discovered rules have a lot of leeway built into them (similar to the the Mostali of the Mari Mountains who *grow* food and *eat* it!).
However we know that Arkat was excommunicated. So I think the Brithini participate in special rites every turning of the Red Sands (ie year) to maintain their modus vivendi (way of life). Those who have offended against the Zzaburic Rules have made their bodies incapable of maintaining Solace and die (of old age). Theoretically a Rokari should be able to partake of the rites and become immortal IMO, but they have lost the secrets and I suspect the church is trying to rediscover them. Current schemes such as eating lots and lots of oysters are strictly taboo.
Martin Crim:
>What the heck is enlo urine used for? Dye fixative? Quenching
>hot iron? Torture?
Australian Beer?
>The player suggested making a
>woodblock print. Does anyone have an opinion on the availability
>of such printing technology in the Lunar Empire? The character
>is an Irrippi Ontor initiate, so if any Lunar would have such
>technology, he would. *Movable type* printing is limited to
>Kralorela, I think, but what about block printing?
Woodcuts are know during the Lunar Empire cf Dorastor: Land of Doom. Given that Dara Happa in the GRAY uses a syllabary, I have no qualms with the fact that they might have developed punches to impress a syllable on clay or metal like the phaestos disc. Given this technology it is not far to develop a block printing of wood of the type your PC wants. I don't see how Kralorela could have developed a movable type tho. Their script is ideogrammic which requires a heck of a lot of characters. The Koreans who developed the movable type in the RW used a syllabary.
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