Sergio:
<< 1. Types of creatures and special rune
List of the great categories of creatures and wether they have or don't
have a special creature rune.
Types of creatures Special Rune
- - Humans yes
- - Dragon kind yes
- - Beasts yes
- - Birds no
- - Insects no
- - Fish no >>
Birds, insects and fish are governed by the beast rune AFAIK. That's why
Gorakiki's runes are darkness and beast, frex. Mammals, birds, insects and
fish are not specifically runic concepts. By this I mean that some mammals
are associated with the Beast rune (e.g. dogs, sables, whatever), some with
the Man rune (e.g. humans, trolls) and some with both (Hsunchen). Not only
that, but you could say the same for insects (beetles = beast, timinits =
man*, gorakiki cultists = both) and fish (haddock = beast, piscoi = man,
hypothetical triolini Hsunchen = both).
- - alright, so that's a guess ;-)
I think this leads to problems further on in your classification, in
that piscoi, say, are as different from haddock as humans are from gerbils.
Many of the features of intelligence etc. you are looking at are associated
with the Man rune/Beast rune dichotomy. For instance, IMO Morokanth are
associated with the Man rune, while Herd Men are associated with the Beast
rune (Eiritha is the goddess of herd men as well as sables and llamas).
Likewise, baboons are Man associated, as evidenced by the fact that their
main deity is Daka Fal, the source of the Man rune! Yet, in other respects,
they seem to fit more into your beast category.
What I'm saying here is that you need to re-think the categories you are
using. It seems to me that there is much greater variation within some of
your categories than it allows for at present. How much of that variation
you'll want to take into account depends on the purpose to which you intend
to put the classification, which you didn't make clear.
Hope this doesn't sound too negative...
Forward the glorious Red Army!
Trotsky
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