Many topics

From: Peter Metcalfe <P.Metcalfe_at_student.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 12:33:49 +1200


Manu:

Asks many questions about the Dragonewts:

>If one is killed, he seeks vengance. OK, but if he dies as a scout, does
>he come back as a scout? Everytime?

Yup! Unless he had managed to acquire the spiritual insights to become a warrior. But that given that somebody's got his skin makes this a tad difficult.

>Does he remember what happend in his previous life?

Yup!

>How does one Dragonewt knows where his skin is, if somebody stole it
>from his previous dead body?

Usually he knows who the person killed him was and starts the detective work from there. However communication is usually the hardest part.

>Is he "unskinned" as long as he doesn't recover his skin? How reacts
>the other Dragonewt about the skin stealing?

They don't care. The Scout usually has to wait until the old skin rots away before he can progress spiritually IMO coz he usually can't get the skin back (that doesn't stop him from trying). A higher caste dragonewt would call in 'favours' from his 'friends' (approximate human translation) to get his skin back and so he would have a greater probability of succeeding.

David Cake:


Me>>The Wizards view this as backward supersition as the faeries the
>>peasants claim to talk to, don't really exist.

>[...] I particularly feel that one good reason to make the 'faeries'
>be real in Rokari lands...

I'm not denying that faeries exist in Seshnela, I was trying to say that the rational wizard does not believe that they exist. However the village wizard does not necessarily qualify as rational.

Saravan Peacock:


>Humakt, Issaries and Chalana Arroy are listed as the current owners of the
>Runes of Death, Trade and Harmony. Are the Lunar cults (eg Yanafal Tarnils,
>Etyries, Deezola/Teelo Norri) contesting for control of these runes?

The Lunars do not acknowlege the God Learner rune scheme so such a question is meaningless to them.

>Or, in the case of Yanfal Tarnils, is he unable to achieve mastery because
>of his 'perversion' of the true ways of his master?

No. Yanafal is not a 'pervert' and Humakt worship exists in Carmania.

>Given the pantheon link, what would be the effect if/when Orlanth succumbs
>(albeit briefly) to the Lunar scourge? Is the Red Goddess, source of the
>Moon rune, in addition to trying to wipe out Orlanth, also contesting
>control of the Air Rune with him, thereby giving her control should she
>win?

The war is between the Red Moon and Orlanth. The runes are a red herring, just as much as the Lunar identification of Orlanth as the Rebellus Terminus. The truest cause of the war is that the Lunar Empire is (currently) expansionist and seeking to rule where it can. If the Red Moon was totally victorious, there would still be a storm god.

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