Re: Belintar's death

From: Light Castle <light_castle_at_...>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 21:07:55 -0400

Cool. (And a nice example of how you mess with someone else's HeroQuest/ritual to boot.) So it could well have been the fertility ritual. I'll just pick something for my world. (Maybe a smaller ritual done in the City of Wonders so most outside his cabal know even what he was doing when he vanished.)

What happened to the City after he didn't come back, by the way? And all the magic based on him, or maintained by him? Did it all fall apart? Did his cultists keep it going?

LC

On 29 May 2004 at 10:26, Peter Metcalfe wrote:

>
> >So it's never been officially established how he died?
>
> The only known account of his death was told by Greg:
>
> "The Pharaoh had a routine ritual that he was used to going through,
> and the Lunars loaded it against him. There's one stage where the
> Pharaoh had to negotiate with the Men in Red to cross the river. He
> knows from all the stories that he's done, that he has to give
> them each
> a gold coin from a foreign land. And _this_ time, the Men in Red are
> all Lunar agents with their own agenda. And they say, "This has to be
> a gold coin from the realm of Khordavu!" And suddenly the myth
> doesn't work for the Pharaoh, and the Men in Red say, "You don't
> know the end of this story, do you? Well, we do!" <mimes drawing
> a sword>.
>
> But this isn't known in the Holy Country.
>
> --Peter Metcalfe