IMO, very powerful elves (shamans, heroes in the making) are able to obtain the same information for whole sections of the forest at a time, not limited by touch (there might be a ritual that briefly gives the same ability to less powerful elves). I always thought of it as an "emotional web" that the elf can monitor and examine; quite useful actually. Allows you to discover foreign intrusions in the forest, whether it be plants/ weeds not yet incorporated into the elf forest, fire, disease, or marauding trolls/dwarves. And makes attacking an elf forest even _more_ difficult. "Trolls in sector twelve! Scramble! Scramble!"
A Larry Niven short story can, once more, be used to good effect in Glorantha. Cool! (BTW, the girl did survive -- the kidnapper/body snatcher intentionally drove her insane to give himself a better cover. Brrrr....)
His other Organlegger stories might be similarly MGF. Say, in terms of chaotic nasties that can't be healed but _can_ take and use body parts from creatures they kill (sort of like a Charnjibber, I suppose, or a zombie that can just keep replacing body bits).
Pam Carlson wrote:
>"Bad Cops"?
Bad cops. Bad cops, bad cops. Whatcha gonna do when wanna lynch you?
> Loyal, justice-loving Dara Happans who obey all the standards of
> righteous purity by slaying the foul, people-eating Dijigelm?
I was thinking more along the lines of cowardly, bigoted mob-mentality DHs
whose proper place in the universe under the trollish heel, meself. Not
that either of us is taking sides, or anything. :)
> (Remember, some Pelorians still tell stories of the Darkness,
> when bands of DarkEaters roved through the land, *actually* hunting and
> eating people!)
Lemme get this straight. First, Orlanth cold-bloodedly offs the Emperor of
the Universe in a brutal coup attempt. Said EotU flees to Wonderhome,
displacing the natives in an attempt to build himself a new power base,
mass-murdering those who oppose his evil and foreign rule and forcing
the rest into becoming refugees. And the *uz* are the monsters? Pshaw. Uz
are the *victims* of Gloranthan history.
Eating people is merely reparations for the ancient wrongs inflicted on the poor, defenseless uz long, long ago. *Sniff*.
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