Kyger Litor and the "man rune"

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_csmail.ucc.ie>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 20:01:07 +0100

"Andrew Solovay" <asolovay_at_rubberducky.com>:
> As I see it, Kyger Litor is (or "represents", if you insist) the union of
> the Man-form with the Darkness-element. Both "man" and "darkness" exist
> independently, and also exist in combination with other runes--but the only
> *union* between the two is Kyger Litor. Thus, if a troll moves away from
> Kyger Litor, the troll will have difficulty in maintaining the union between
> the two archetypes.

I'm with Jamuz on this one: I think that's a rather GLish outlook, or at the very least, a human, rather than trollish one. Uz don't regard KL, I don't think, as a second-order result of two more 'fundamental' principles, but as a rather more basic archetype unto Herself. Granted they do recognise ancestral darkness spirits (or gods, or other "entities") that are more ancient than KL, but I don't think that amounts to the same thing at all.

> A creature that is all-Man and no Darkness is precisely as alien to
> Kyger Litor as a creature that is all-Darkness and no Man.

I'd be inclined to disagree with this on principle, stemming as it seemingly does from the above reasoning; but also in practice, as the trolls do worship Subere, as an important if distinctly "minority specialisation" religion, but afaik worshipping any all-Man and no Darkness entity (such as "Grandfather Mortal") would be a very strange practice indeed, if not an entirely unknown one.

Cheers,
Alex.

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