Re: Kyger Litor and the "man rune"

From: simon_hibbs2 <simon.hibbs_at_marconi.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 13:32:44 -0000

>So... stop doing the Kyger Litor rituals, and you become
>less fertile. Find an alternate way to become fertile (an alien
>god's rituals, say, or some roll-your-own shamanism), and you can
>have children, but they will lose either Dark or Man. (Gradually,
>gradually, of course...) It all boils down to the same thing:
>Being a Troll means being a daughter of Kyger Litor means being
>the union of Dark with Man. Those are all synonymous expressions.

I think you're right so far, although when you talk about Zorak Zoran being kin, you're off base. ZZ is not a troll, but purely a thing of darkenss.

>Now, if I'm not completely off-base with this, it might have some
>interesting consequences. Vampires, for example, are another
>(and much later) combination of Dark with Man; Thanatar has
>similar connotations.

Vivamort doesn't have the man rune - Darkness, Chaos and Undeath (Hunger), IIRC - and non-man-like creatures can become vampires.

Simon Hibbs

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