>Possibilities
>
>1) The imps are demonized godlings or spirits. Pick any one of the
>associated spirits from Cults of Sartar, Thunder Rebels etc, transform all
>the magics into their sorcerous equivalents and give the creature a
>permanent bad mood.
This is a nice one. Fairly simple.
>2) The mostali have gremlins and nilmergs, embodying the harmony
>disorder duality. Perhaps these are common underworld creatures
>and that other dualities are possible - life/death, truth/illusion etc.
I don't know if I'd make them imps, but I do think this is a fascinating idea.
>3) Perhaps imps are created by the Malkioni to rid themselves of
>impure thoughts and desires. For most Malkioni, the imps created
>have little duration but some wicked criminals may experience a
>moment of contrition and in doing so, the imp has indefinite duration.
>Thus an imp is a shadow caricature of the human that made it and
>has magics relating to the bad things the originator did before he
>created the imp.
Isn't this a bit like the... Borists? (I've forgotten.) They sort of shrive themselves of sin and chaos? I could see that being a source of imps. LC
--Peter Metcalfe
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