> > Mind you, one factor to consider is that humans have awful birthing
> > compared to most animals. I'm positive that there is a myth to
> > explain this (and yes, this means that back in the green age babies
> > just about popped out, and were probably not so helpless). It could
> > be a curse, somewhat like what the trolls suffer from. Or it could
> > be something more involved....humans traded easy birthing for the
> > humanity rune or something? Maybe because grandfather mortal was the
> > first to die, death always lurks around birthing?
>
> Well, as we all know, in the RW Western Tradition it is a curse. I'm not
sure I like that
> though. Trading away easy birthing for something could be interesting. I
like the
> Grandfather Mortal idea, but does that really apply? I somehow recall
Grandfather
> Mortal not just being human, but I think only humans have these severe
birth difficulties.
> But what would they have traded this away for?
It need not have been traded away - the Darkness Ages stole many thigs from
many people.
RR
It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this has
done what he has done.
- Richelieu