Re: What's the current Received Wisdom on ducks?

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:51:12 +1200


Andrew Solovay wrote:

>I vaguely remember from RQ days that the Ducks (that's what we called
>'em back then, "ducks", deal with it) tended to be focussed on
>death-gods.
>
>What is the current Gloranthan wisdom on this?

Ducks are Orlanthi but have a special relationship with Death, whom they call Hueymakt (Storm Tribe p102).

>* Are they theists in the Storm pantheon (Heortlings with feathers)? If
>so (focussing, I'd guess, on Humakt), that'd be an interesting skewing
>of Heortling society--elevating an auxiliary god (and a wacky, obsessive
>auxiliary god, at that) to the center of community life. Humakti
>weddings? Humakti crop blessings? The mind boggles.

Humakt is incapable of being the centre of community life.

>* Maybe I'm missing the boat here. Are the Durulz properly considered
>one of the Elder Races?

If anything, Durulz are one of the Stupid Races.

--Peter Metcalfe

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