Those quaint Vadeli

From: owner-glorantha_at_hops.wharton.upenn.edu
Date: 31 Jul 96 19:27:28 EDT


Nils comments brilliantly:
>With all the speculation on the Red Vadeli, I can't help thinking of
>what the Blues are like. We have

> * Sleazy, trading Browns who maintain immortality by eating
> their kids.

> * Inhuman and cruel Reds, who might maintain their immortality
> by feeding on pain and suffering.

> * Blues ?? My take: they or cold, calculating and utterly ruthless. They
are not
>cruel or nasty in any way though. Where the Browns cheat you, the Reds
>torment you (and the Brithini treat you with arrogant disdain), the
>Blues find other humans so utterly insignificant that they don't even
>bother to mistreat them.

IMO Blues are the oldest Vadeli caste and are perhaps the most frightening of all.
They are the ultimate manipulators and this is their route to immortality. Blues are masters at all forms of strategy. Their brains are trained to filter through millions of possiblities, they have eidetic memories and instant recall. They consider themselves to be the ultimate ubermencsh and all else is beneath them.

However, they acknowledge the existance and viability of other races and cultures, they merely seek to destroy them and supplant them with their own. This drive for destruction is their source of immortality.

Each Blue Vadeli binds themselves, when ready, to an immense ritual called the Great Manipulation which that they have been preparing since before the opening of the seas. This spell is truly immense and is a living thing, formed by hundreds of Vadeli all working for their own plans which all function as part of the whole.

Each Blue is a cog in the "machine", a facet of the gem, all dedicated to supplanting all other life with the Blue Vadeli overman or inheritor.

 While an individual Blues plans are within the parameters of the Great Manipulation they maintain immortality and their astounding mental clarity. If their plans fail or take them outside of the parameters of the spell, they lose their immortality and slowly lose their powers of hightened mind.

The Red & Brown castes are the mortar and pestel of the Blues. They are tools to bring destruction by war, tyranny and subterfuge.

The reason why Blues have yet to be seen is simple. If no one knows you exist, its a hell of a lot harder to subvert your plans. Orwell said "ignorance is strength" which is true. Everyone elses ignorance is the Blue Vadelis strength.

Any thoughts anyone?

Martin Laurie


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