> writes a scenario thumbnail concerning an arroyan mission to a
> neighboring
> village under the leadership of a mad, heroquesting woman in
> white who would
> have her charges, all young, untried farmboys and farmgirls,
> become broo-chattel.
- -..
> My goals would be, (1) escape, (2) bring back warriors, (3) burn
> the town down
> and kill the adult chaos sympathizers. Propitiation of Thed and
> Malia is
> something that Sartarite Orlanthi cannot stomach.
Actually, I was thinking of a more civilized setting, maybe one where the Sartar barbarism was being tempered by the Lunar Way. Anyway, it could also be staged in Sartar. The characters would react as you've described and maybe my madwoman would be tried for - for what, for being too compassionate?! Here comes the moral dilemma.
> As a GM, I would suggest that her quest is overly melodramatic,
> and rather more accomodating of obvious chaos than Chalana Arroy as
described in Prax and Sartar.
Not more melodramatic that the early Christian martyrs' stories, where they were portrayed loving those who slaughtered them. This way they converted them. Think of the Broo, that night, who can't celebrate with his companions the defeat of another stupid human party. He's contemplating a riddle which he can't understand: "Why did they do it?". An illuminating/cleansing riddle, because when he will understand, he'll know that they did it for love, for compassion, for something of which chaos has little. And he'll realize that these are the greatest powers in the universe.
Note that the Lightbringer pantheon's Chalana Arroy does
> not approve of chaos. Her son, Arroin, was badly wounded by Chaos. She
> could not cure his wound. She is under no obligation to heal chaotics,
> nor to place chaotics under
> her protection. She undertook the lightbringers' quest in order
> to stop chaos, for
> Ge's sake!
Where did I read that Deezola is Chalana Arroy healed of her pacifism even in face of absolute evil? Was it on the "lunar cults" page (by Steve Maurer) of your Carmanian material? ;)
She doesn't approve of Chaos, but does that mean she strives to destroy it? If I were to play a Healer, for MGF, I would play a straightedge one!
> I'd rethink this scenario before actually playing it. You can
> find much more artful
> ways to show the moral ambiguity of Chaos.
Absolutely! This was just a suggestion. Let me know if the above notes change something or if you still don't like it.
Bye A chaos-loving Alex ------------------------------
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