> While any starving human might eat another human, I think that this
> propensity is as rare in Prax as on Earth ... Morocanth and ogres eat
> human flesh out of choice, of course, which is yet another reason for
> other humans to refrain from this -- a mark distinguishing man from not-man.
I had always thought that human Praxians happily consume mock-pork (herd-man meat) -- as happily as they'd eat any other beast of the Plaines -- and so I'm surprised to read this. Unless you meant "human" as opposed to "herd man". Now, given this common experience of eating all-but-human flesh, mightn't a starving Praxian be considerably *more* likely than anyone on Earth to butcher and consume parts of a handy corpse in order to survive in the desolate Wastes?
Another question: is the Cannibal Cult a cult, or a tribe? Are they born, or do they "recruit", like other Praxian Secret Societies (Sword Brothers, etc.). I'm not trying to suggest that Prax has a cannibal ecology -- quite the reverse! I'm trying to sort out whether the morokanth (following the Way of Waha) are really *that* much more likely to eat real humans than other (human) Praxian tribesmen. After all, their dominant cult tells them not to.
(As I write this, I'm suddenly aware that I know almost nothing about how Sword Brothers and the like are in fact organised, recruited, etc... any hints?)
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