>> BTW: This brings up why I don't buy the idea of the newly made initiate
>> or devotee having to kill someone during the process of assuming the new
>> status. An initiate seems to have to have killed in battle before they
>> can even try to get in, and I wouldn't allow a devotee who wasn't
>>extensively blooded.
>
>Well, yes, I don't think the question is likely to be
>"is this person capable of killing?". Not often, anyway.
Isn't the Esrolian version of Humatki more of a dueling cult than a real death cult? I can imagine them having an initiation ritual involving killing - probably of a small furry animal rather than a human being. A "look how bad and dangerous we are" exercise. That's very much the exception though.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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