> >Yea, sure, the wame way that you could ask a river that drowned your son
> >to pay weregeld, or ask a tree whose limb fell of in a storm and crushed
> >his head to pay weregeld. Ask and ask, but no one in their right mind
> >expects to be paid. Humakti are forces of nature, not people.
>
> But Glorantha is a place where you _could_ bring a lawsuit
against
> a force of nature and be taken seriously. Heck, you might even get
weregild
> from the tree or the river....
And in Iceland there was a successful lawsuit against a ghost.
You *might* get a satisfactory ruling against a tree, river or Humakti, and you *might* even collect. But the odds are against you...
RR
It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this has
done what he has done.
- Richelieu
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