Re: AA vs KL

From: nichughes2001 <nick.hughes_at_...>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:14:47 -0000

>
> To begin with, the Kitori are not Heortlings. At best they could be
> described as Theyalans.
>

They are described as Orlanthi in Thunder Rebels, tainted Orlanthi perhaps but still Orlanthi. I jumped to the conclusion that they would be Heortlings as all the other Orlanthi in that area are Heortlings and no other culture-founding hero is mentioned.

> THere is the additional complication that Greg told us at Tentacles
> that they are neither human or troll, but something like another
minor
> Elder Race. Apparently one able to breed true with either humans or
> trolls. Apparently able to prove their human or troll nature at
need...

If I'm gonna get Gregged by unpublished remarks then that's something I guess I will have to live with. Personally I prefer them as just another Heortling tribe - but one that by accepting worship of darkness deities earns the emnity of "mainstream" heortlings.

>
> How would one do this, anyway?
>

In the role of AA one has to woo and win the heart of the local Earth goddess. A little baby OOO then follows.

>
> That's the hard way, especially since you'll have to awaken the
local
> volcano god first (and he's quite out of the way, if the Roundlakes
> are the nearest evident Volcano, so maybe better get a new volcano
> going?),

Setting off a volcanic eruption might be a risk of the quest...

Better succeed in controlling that volcanic deity having awakened him.

>
>
> My favourite ploy would be to sit out the birth of the prodigal
child
> and replace it with a changeling of your own preparation,
introducing
> the ONO as the new surface troll race. Be sure to power up your
Eurmali...

Which brings me to another way to weaken KL. Send all your Eurmali along to strengthen the Uz trickster in all the heroquests where he appears - perhaps with more sane questers as backup. The Uz trickster is far less helpful than Eurmal[1] and more directly opposed to the interests of KL. Whether strengthening a trickster is ever a good idea is another matter. At the heart of which could be an Uz trickster *pretending* to be a follower of AA and fooling everyone.

[1] Perhaps hard to believe but true.

--
Nic

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