Darksense, Healers

From: Peter Linton Tracy <937058_at_bud.cc.swin.edu.au>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 11:58:27 +1000 (EST)


On the Darksense debate... hmm...

I read an article recently on Synaethesia, which some of you ewill have heard of. This is where your senses cross over, much like Marvel comics. ;-) Thus like my flatmate, numbers might have personalities, or letter colours, or sound have visuals.

This is great for aplication with trolls to try solve this Darksense thing, since they dont actually hear darksense, but see the sound (Hey, do dolphins see sonar like this???!!).

I had the idea that the Curse of Kin is a magical effect, which blocks out prying ala-ultrasound, maybe the pitch of the scan is too dangerous to the child to do until too late in the term, so Xoila wont do it in case damaging the Darktroll children... also its probably a specialised skill taught only to healers... I mean, have you ever seen ultrasound or sonar images. Back to Synaesthesia, maybe this kind of image scans as a different sense... "Hey Urbag, you *taste/touch* a pregnant *green*, but you don't *indigestion* *anger*"... makes speaking Darktounge that whole lot more challenging, since we don't even understand the concept... 8-O

I've always had a problem with the Chalana Healers the way they are at the moment, in that unlike Xiola U worshipers, they can offer no coup-de-gras (sp?)/Euthanasia to cases beyond their help. But this I guess is the difference between sworn healers, and Xiola, who is about comfort in duress.

Peter T


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