> In a private discussion (around Drastic Sea ideas) preceding the HeroQuest
> game by a few years, Stephen Martin once mentioned that 7 of the ten Tritons
> fathered a genus of mermen each - one for the Cetoi, one for the Piscoi,
> etc. - and that the other three were the primal shaman, priest and sorcerer.
> The sorcerer may have been lost to the Mermen, and may just have ended up in
> the northwest as ancestor of the Waertagi...
Very nice.
The mermen definitely have a (pre-)history of losing stuff to other people, and this also makes a cool Waertagi origin story, and it also gives further explanation for the rarity of merpeople sorcerors ...
Probably the _real_ reason why they have so few is that the aridity and hardness of the sorcerous mindset is alien to the fluid liquidity of merperson thinking, but it's very nice to have further mythographical input to the general theme(s).
Julian Lord
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