Multi-skilled spirits in fetishes

From: Dick Kingman <rtkingman_at_...>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 00:52:25 -0400


The following are some thoughts I have had after reading some of the various discussions the last few weeks. And as a standard disclaimer: Your Gloranthan May Vary (mine certainly does based on some of the examples I have seen).

Multi-skilled spirits in fetishes:
I like the idea that if you capture a spirit which has more than one skill, you can use all of them. The restriction I would place on it is that you can only use one at a time. If you have the spirit as one use per day, then you could choose any one of its skills to use each day. Frex- a spirit with 3 skills (Find food, Climb and Start fire)* is captured and bound into a fetish which has 3 uses per day. The owner could use it to start 3 fires on Freezeday. On Waterday use it to find food, climb the tree to get the food, and then start a fire to cook it.

I would still restrict the integration of a spirit to only having it manifest one of its skills as the talent, chosen by the integrator at the time of integration. However, I would allow the shaman (or other integrator) to choose binding into a 3-use/day fetish or integration on a complete success, if a suitable fetish is available.

Dick

[* - The spirit of a squirrel from the realm of Lodril, which likes roasted nuts. :-) ]
[ Of course, that assumes that spirits of creatures which live on the god plane go to the spirit plane when they die. Or at least they become assessible to shamans in the spirit world. Oh, oh! Can of Worms, put the lid back on quick! ]

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