> >1. Do books and scrolls and other written media have "book daimones" which
> >are awakened by the sage? Perhaps some sort of "offspring" born from the
> >union of the sage and his personal "Light of Inspiration"? Would all books
> >have this daimon or only certain books? And, if the latter, what would be
> >the criterion to have one from the standpoint of the LM sage? ("That's an
> >important work, boy! You'd better make amends for dropping him! Put him on
> >that pillow over there...")
>
> I doubt this. It seems unlikely that every item would have a
>guardian daimon. It's possible that some LM worshippers could summon
>daimons to inhabit materials or awaken the materials' guardians (ala Pella
>for pottery or Orstan for wooden items).
I totally disagree here. I believe that everything in Glorantha has its guardian spirit/daemon/whatever. It may not be awake, or you may not know how to talk to it, but it is there. Reading, at least to the Orlanthi, is proof of this. Those strange grey beards stare at the book for several hours, their lips moving in quiet prayer, and at the end of it, the book tells them things! What more proof of a containing spirit do you need?
Cheers,
Graham
-- Graham Robinson graham_at_... Albion Software Engineering Ltd.
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