RE: Re: Parts of Gbaji

From: Andrew Solovay <asolovay_at_...>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:46:18 -0700


<matthew.cole_at_b...> wrote:
>
>> Q: What about if an Uz finds them and consumes [parts of Gbaji].
>> a) Effects on the Uz ?

> It _could_ work like animist integration of a skill spirit.
> In some stories trolls have eaten stuff like that and used
> their own powers to influence what happens to them. Of course
> if they do it wrong.....

And FWIW, trolls don't seem to be too squeamish about using bits of chaos gods this way--Kyger Litor made drums from the skin of Thed, and Boztakang made his throwing stones from a now-forgotten chaos demons. So trolls don't say "Aah! chaos! must destroy immediately! Burn then petrify then thrown into Magasta's Pool!" [though this is getting close to digest fodder...]

So if the trolls buried Gbajibits instead of trying to use them, that's presumably because none of them were strong enough to take the risk. They may not have a moral objection to integrating chaos spirits, but they know that trying to integrate a chaos *god* is a bit of a handful. (After all, Kyger Litor herself was not able to destroy this god's curse...)

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