It's much better to bring these provincial troops in and manipulate traditional barbarian infighting to do the job for you...
Uz sonar
> If this is a subsonic "ping" like sonar, wouldn't the receivers on other Uz
notice it?
Wow! Good question! I would think they would. The range of
frequencies trolls can hear is probably great. I can't imagine the
outgoing "ping" changing so much in frequency just because it bounced
that it suddenly becomes audible.
(Of course we're assuming that sound in Glorantha is made by compression
waves....) Heck - maybe Darkness itself is a source of energy, and has
its own waves, just like light? If the darkness itself were providing
the waves to reflect off objects, thenDarksense would be passive. (But
also available to other races who were attuned to Darkness.)
>This might be a good reason why Uzko have kept (and even refined on) Uzuz
eyes; it can be _dangerous_ to sense/scan other trolls.
This is a great deduction! It explains why trollkin have great big eyes, but Big Uz have little bitty ones. (Eyes are often vulnerable in fights, and a source of heat loss. Why have big ones if you can use another sense?)
Troll art:
> it was the combination of textures on the surface of the object, various
hollowed out portions, and the
introduction of denser materials inside that gave a remarkably pleasing
effect for Darksense.
Nice image!
Pam
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