Kinslaugher is just kin's laughter

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From: plarsen_at_mail.utexas.edu
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 10:34:11 -0600 (CST)

> From: Chris Lemens says
>
> Kinslaying is only a crime after the concept of "kin" is invented. It
> seems
> to me that, before Orlanth made the first
> stead/bloodline/clan/tribe/ring/band/widget, Vadrus was just a blustery
> obnoxious guy who was also descended from Orlanth's dad. He was not
> "kin"
> in the legal and magical sense that makes a kinslaying so troublesome.
> For
> that mater, no one was.

Well, there we have it. Andrew Larsen's player characters just need to arrange to kill the kin back in the Golden Age, when there were no kin. Then all they need to do is deal with the results of that. I'm sure they will be much less painful....

Peter Metcalfe and Joerg Baumgartner clear up my Vadrus confusion. Oh well, I guess my brother is back to getting an Eurmali to take the rap, bringing the dead back, or getting outlawed and dying in misery (at least the clan will be spared).

Peter Larsen

End of The Glorantha Digest V8 #310