Re: Humakt

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_sierratel.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:17:07 -0700


> >I do not think the core hUmakt has any anti-chaos bias. It just isn't an
> >enemy of Death.
>
> I'm not sure I'd agree with this: if Humakt is Separation, then
> surely Chaos is the opposite of that: Chaos stands for random
> intermingling, entropy, and corruption - in other words, the breakdown
> of the natural laws that should keep things separate and distinct.
> During the Greater Darkness people could even no longer tell apart the
> living and the dead - a Humakti's worst nightmare. It seems to me
> that Humakt's Sword, by forming the barrier between the worlds, also
> preserves those worlds from dissolving into one another: that Humakt
> is all that stands between Glorantha and the triumph of Chaos (at
> least, that's how the Humakti would see it).

I think your main suppostition is flawed: Chaos is *not* random intermingling - remember that gods killed by chaos are *gone*, not distributed about the cosmos or randomly assimliated into the Chaos Borg or anything of that sort - its as if they never existed. Yes, there are some chaos things that are random interminglings, and some that are so solidly *one* thing that they have no room for other natures. Some chaos "gods" embrace one set of values (Malia and Disease frex), others are so chaotic that they can't be said to "embrace" anything.

> That would also be why Humakti hate undead - they are an unliving
> reminder of the Greater Darkness, and their continued existence
> threatens to weaken the barriers and return us all to that time. I
> suspect that to a true Humakt worshipper, all undead are
> Chaos-tainted, even those created by cults which claim to oppose Chaos
> themselves.

Undead are neither Living nor Dead. Some are dead that have been brought back to life (Lead Cross quest anyone?), some are Living beings that have embraced death (Vampires). Personally, my Humakti would oppose those that *chose* undeath over unfortunate corpses brought back to unlife (though those should be destroyed simply to release their souls). Vampires and thier ilk should be eliminated so that they cannot spread their infection of Unlife.

RR


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