Keith Nellist:
<< << If Elmal falls into the Underworld IMO that's because he's back in the
Fire tribe. He should now serve as a dutiful and loyal servant of the Dead
Emperor and fulfil all of his most capricious and outrageous wishes while
being beaten like a slave and so on. The Emperor is always just, but Elmal
must trick him into being unjust, letting him be blinded by his own dim,
almost extinguished light. This will cause the Emperor of the Dead to lose
all of the light and heat he has left, in which case the Lord of Ashes can do
nothing to prevent Elmal to leave the Underworld with the Justice Spear he
gained back as a torch to light the way up. Probably that counts as
experimental heroquesting, or just re-enacting the myth of Elmal's birth,
probably both.>>
Hmm, can I combine this with the court room drame from the Blue Moon. Rhetorical question. >>
The myths fit well together. Annilla rose from the Styx waters mingled with
Yelm's blood: If water touches Yelm's body, that proves that he can't see the
water and so is unjust and so his Justice is going to fly away...
If Yelm cannot see the water, that's because he's "blinded by his own
brightness" in Elmali terms; in Annillan terms he only sees his own
reflection in the mirror of Annilla's pleading, which would theoretically
convince him that she's innocent although she killed him. In Elmali terms,
once Yelm has to give up the Justice Spear, the Fire brothers fight for it
and Elmal wins.
Another myth shows Elmal escaping from the inside of the Emperor's body
(Teller of Lies, a Chaos god!) after Elmal served him his own horse for
dinner...
<< The barrier to the otherside is going to be going down the pool and, I guess you could call it surviving, but you might call it dying. I think I run it as an extended contest with the end result of cradle, baby and all washed up on some forlorn bank of the River Styx. The "dead" heroes are still there, but in the wrong part of the underworld, the "living" heroes are also there, but with more carryover? >>
If the 'dead' heroes are, should i say, 'medically dead', this could probably cause the separation of soul and body. I'm not sure about that or what this implies, other than escaping the greedy hands of one's psychopomp or terminal dissolution in the shorter or longer term, or worse. I think it's more difficult to escape hell without one's body.
Jerome
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