Danny, poet laureate of the Digest:
>Don't say I didn't warn you
>Made up on the spur of the.... erm, translated in the 4th age by a
>Heortlander sage - reputedly the doomed words Harreck spoke as the Hero
>Wars began.
I got out kick out of these, esp. the second one, the hero wars prophecy 'related by MOBus Thrax, famous Danfive Xaron ex-member and reformed ginaholic'. Can't think why he'd have that name though... Spooling about as I am to beef up the Notes from Nochet file for future issues of Tales, I'd like to pinch this 'un too if I may?
>Sorry about the waste of bandwidth, but I enjoy it
Give us more!
Bloody excellent stuff, this! Erik's theories about undead would make a mighty fine Lhankor Mhy/Sage thesis, particularly with Richard the Crippler's field notes. Once again I'm shamelessly headhunting material for Reaching Moon...
>To be continued...
Yes please!
and on the subject of the undead:
Jean writes:
>Mad Head Ghosts
>I've seen the darklight, mad head ghosts are undead while Thanatari
>heads are undying.
The Daka Fal spell "Free Ghost" (see GoG p.26) frees a Mad Head Ghost. The Humakt spell Turn Undead - which on a critical success will "destroy, *release* or whatever" the target - lists skeletons, zombies, mummies, ghouls and vampires but not ghosts (GoG p.42).
To my reckoning, ghosts are souls without bodies, while undead are animated corpses without souls. Mad Heads sort of sit between the two - a ghost that has been bound into its former body's severed head, but as they have a *soul*, I don't think they register on Detect Undead, nor can they be Turned. However, whether these foul abominations are undead or not is probably academic to most Humakti anyway!
Cheers
MOB
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