KoW and Kazkurtum

From: Peter Metcalfe <P.Metcalfe_at_student.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 12:06:53 +1300


Kingdom of War:

Reading about some peoples desire to 'humanize' (Nick B.'s words) the Kingdom of War, I think this is heading down the wrong track. When I look at the Kingdom of War, I am reminded of the enormities of Nazi Germany, the Yezhovchina of Stalin's Russia, the Cultural Revolution, the Witchcraze etc. The Kingdom of War is _not_ a normal society, it is a Madness. Whether Lord Death on a Horse does it for the Great God Pookums or is a bewildered Humakti trying to keep a grip of things is immaterial.

Complaining about the lack of apparent culture in the Kingdom of War misses the point. I would only use cultural practices in the Kingdom of War to bely the senselessness of it all. For example: during the Great Purges of 1936-1938, many people were detained by the NKVD, forced to confess to conspiring against the Soviet State and then sent to the Gulag and/or shot. Now if one happened to make a complaint about the way one was treated whilst being questioned by the NKVD, these complaints were taken seriously and followed up upon! (not that it helped the complainee much).

Peter Michaels:


>I think it's a Kazkurtum spell. Kaz
>tricked the Dara Happans into accepting him as Emperor
>because he had detatched his shadow, sending it off to do
>nasty deeds.

Kazkurtum is a Trickster? I thought he was more like the Evil Dark Emperor. His cult would be more like Mephistopholes (sp?) to whom one makes Faustian Bargains of Worldly Riches but forsakes Heaven forever IMO. I wonder whether the Spolites knew Kazkurtum as one of the Gloomy Emperors.

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