Honourable Humakt

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From: Mikael Raaterova <ginijji_at_telia.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 14:24:18 +0200

Peter Metcalfe wrote:
>> Humakt is a death god, not a god of honor.

And David Dunham commented:
>It's true that people don't say "we need more honor in the clan,
>let's worship Humakt" in the way they would worship him to gain war
>magic, but he's still a god of honor.

To be a god of honour (and not merely an honourable god), Humakt should have some honour-generating/inducing magic that his worshippers can call upon. Which he has (both in RQ3 and the HW-draft). To me this means that Humakt is an embodiment of death *and* honour.

- Mikael Raaterova [.sig omitted on legal advice]