Flintnail

From: David Cake <davidc_at_cs.uwa.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1995 10:19:27 +0800


>From: Brad <S1516801_at_oduvm.cc.odu.edu>
>Date: Tue, 28 Mar 95 12:47:07 EST
>Subject: Flint Nail (answer)
>
>I have been trying to get caught up on your disscusions and I came across a
>Remark about a flint nail.

        For the benefit of people on the list without access to the Big Rubble and Pavis, I will summarise the cult as described in there. Brads GM appears to have made a change or two, and people might appreciate the published version.

> A flint nail is/was a cult that existed near
>pavis that was comprised of Dwarves and Humans.

        Mostly dwarves in the leadership. They are associated with the Pavis cult, though, so they have a lot of humans that are friendly to them. The High Priest of Flintnail is also a Daughter of Pavis (Ginkizzie, the King of the Pavis Dwarves (King is a grandious title for someone who rules at most a couple of hundred dwarves, though). They are probably appostate from a Mostali point of view, though they have some magic that kind of resembles Mostali cult magic.

        There is a FlintNail/ Pavis maintained small group of warrior initiates called the Rubble Trackers, who perform various rubble missions for the cults.

> This Cult was a rival
>Cult of the Garak Kag Piligrims (I think that is Spelled Right).

        While I guess you could say that the Gerak Kag Pilgrims and the Rubble Trackers are rivals, but more because the Gerak Kag cult is the main hero cult of the Rubble trolls, and the Pavis and Flintnail cults have spent the last century of two fighting the Rubble trolls.

 Thier was
>a War between the Two and as a result there isn't andy dwarves in the Big
>Rubble.

        According to the Rubble map, there is a Flintnail temple in the rubble, near the Quarry, which I think is actively used. It is well out of troll territory (in Zebra rider territory), so relatively safe from troll attack. I think there is also a ruined Flintnail temple somewhere, so there probably was troll/ dwarf fighting.

        In any case the dwarves have tunnels from Pavis Dwarftown into the Rubble, so they could be encountered there.

> The Trolls lost most of their numbers and had to allow Zorak Zoran
>troll into the Hero Cult to Increase the Numbers so they could keep the
>Chaos down in the Rubble.

        Quite plausible. Gerak Kag is a Kygor Litor hero cult primarily, but as all the ZZers are also in KL, why not? Mind you, the Gerak Kag cult is not going to help out the ZZers that much.

        Cheers
                David

> My two Cents
> Brad
> P.S. Our Campain is In HERO System.
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