Paolo Guccione <teigupa_at_tss.tei.ericsson.se>
Re: Free Will, Berserkers
>
>If I remember correctly, there are three cults that have access to the
>Berserk spell: Humakt, Storm Bull and Zorak Zoran. All of them are of
>course associated with the Death Rune. If I have left some cults out,
>please tell me.
>
Er, Basmol does, a variant anyways. I suspect Shargash does as well, and
GoG gives it to Babeester Gor as well. Doesn't one of the Lodril subcults
provide it, Monster Man I think. And the cult among the Doraddi which is
similar to Lodril, or possibly the Vangono cult, would have it as well.
Finally, I imagine that the Wachaza cult ought to, or some merman deity.
>And finally: elephants often go berserk when wounded. Did the now-dead
>elephant people who once inhabited northern Ralios (I cannot recollect
>their name and do not have my copy of Dorastor at hand) use to go
>berserk in battle?
>
Sounds good to me. And who says they are _really_ extinct? :)
>
Martin Laurie <102541.3423_at_CompuServe.COM>
Alakoring, Dragons & Dara Happa
>
>David Dunham:
>>Firstly, I remain unconvinced that Sothenik became the Sun Dragon (it's
>>more likely he was simply Captain Kirk, abandoning the administration
of
>>his crew and mission to go play adventuring).
>
>And according to my story, he met the Green skinned people and
presumably a
>Green skinned woman!!!!! Does that mean that his Shargashi bodyguards
>wore red
>armour? Was his Buseri always saying things like "God damnit Sothy, I'm
an
>astrologer, not a magician!"? Its too horrible to think about.
>
Didn't you know that the Moon Boats of the Lunar Empire are based on the
earlier Sun Shuttles of Dara Happa? And we all know that it is really a
ship in orbit around (er, um, over) Glorantha which sends down those
Sunspears, right?
Gods, I'm going to make _myself_ sick if I keep this up.
>The only way out of this that I can see is magic. Dream Dragons are
barely
>killable by people but True Dragons take something special.
>
And who is not to say that all the dragons killed by the Dara Happans
were _true_ dragons. Most dragon-killing heroes in Glorantha are killers
of Dream Dragons, I am sure. Why should the DHs be any different?
>The ultimate irony for me is that Alakoring broke the control of the
preisthood
>over politics by turning the _politicians_ into priests!
>
And how is that any different from any other society? Priests into
politicians, politicians into priests, it is pretty much a perpetual
motion machine.
Stephen Martin
ilium_at_juno.com
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