On Jun 18, 2:29pm, owner-glorantha_at_erzo.org wrote:
> [When resurrecting] Wouldn't
> it be better (if this is possible) to capture the spirit... and bind it
into... a freshly sacrificed body.
>
> >From a moral point of view this would raise no problems for a chaotic/evil
> cult (see Thanatar). As for other cults thats arguable but parts of the
lunar
> empire would practice it.
>
> This kind of practice could lead to high ranking people becoming practically
> immortal, imagine when your body starts to get old sacrifice a war
> prisoner/criminal/slave and hay-presto you've got a healthly young body.
There is a Larry Niven SF story with a relevant plot (although it
has high-tech medicine inserting a central nervous system, rather than
magic inserting a spirit), as follows. The children of a wealthy person are
kidnapped, one is killed (I think) and the other recovered safely, but
seems never quite to recover from the ordeal. The kid-nappers are never found.
Years later a PI realizes that the kid-napper IS the apparent survivor,
having murdered both children and then swapped bodies.
Could make an intersting adventure plot. Add Krasht, Illumination, people
in high places and stir...
`But my dear, breasts are simply OUT this year.'
`Oh, and this slave girl cost me a FORTUNE.'
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