Scarlet Bats

From: Eric Rowe <rowe_at_CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 23:16:08 -0700


>> The Broken Council Writeups do speak of the Scarlet Bat.
>
> There are other references to the Bat from GodsTime legends, but
>somewhere along the line I got the impression that it was a translation
>thing. "....and then Storm Bull drove off the dreadfull Bat of 1000 Eyes,
>which had been...." A Lunar historian (and perhaps others) would translate
>this from Praxian (or whatever) into '..the dreadfull Crimson Bat...', the
>name being commonly & currently used. Sandy? Nick? Am I off-base on this?

I can assure everyone that the Scarlet Bat is not the Crimson Bat. For evidence one only need look in the old Shargash temple in Alkoth. There, draped over the statue of Palangio, is a cloak of Scarlet Bat-wing.

eric


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