> Always. As Peter mentioned but did not detail, there are
> other death gods. How they apply with the story of Death and
> its arrival in the world would be interesting. Note that
> Zorak Zoran has been called a Death god, even though all he
> did was steal Death for a while. (As Orlanth did, as Eurmal
> did, yet neither of them are death gods.)
Babs Gor, too, I believe. Qute a lot who held Death for a bit, but don't own it.
> OK, I need a refresher on what happened at Castle Blue.
Red Goddess showed up, big fight, proved herself to be a late-arriving part of the Compromise.
> And why do you say so firmly that Carmanian Humakt doesn't have a
> truth rune?
Because there's a writeup in which his affinities are Death, Combat, and Battle. Not Truth or Honour.
> > The things Humakt do seem to be functional towards Humakts calling!
> > (however horrible the acts may be) Jane, you might not be
> totally wrong.
>
> I'm leaning more and more to Jane's theory being the most interesting.
Er... Which one? I seem to remember coming up with at least two, maybe
three?
Death as subset of Separation, Eurmal as Humakt's Other, and the
kin-severing thing being to excuse what Humakt did to his ex-kin while
getting bits of his sword back.
> Now that's an interesting idea. Once he found Death once,
> every one of his "severings"
> to control it is in response to some misuse of Death from
> some other being? But in some way he was also creating those
> other beings? Care to show us an example or two?
Sure. Here's one of mine.
http://www.jane-williams.me.uk/glorantha/stories/humaktearth.cfm
If you go back to the story collection
http://www.jane-williams.me.uk/glorantha/stories/
you'll find in the intro to that that I wrote it as a dare in response to some Flash about snakes, mushrooms, and badgers. So my apologies if some of it is rather forced as a result.
And you'll also find a link to "Humakt's Oath" http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/swords/Public/oath.htm
The theory I'm putting in the Earth Tribe one, BTW, is that Babs Gor doesn't have Death, and never had. She's got a distorted version of Life. The psychological theory then dives headlong into over-18 stuff, through sado-masochism and out the other side, to the point that I won't be putting it on this list, but I think it makes a weird twisted sort of sense.
End of Glorantha Digest, Vol 11, Issue 98
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