Re: Carmanian Humakti (was Yanafal Tarnils)

From: Light Castle <light_castle_at_...>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:02:46 -0500


On 22 Mar 2005 at 1:46, Mikko Rintasaari wrote:

> Yes, Ikadz, or something like that. I didn't quite forget, but thought
> that maybe such things are for the light-side worshippers to worry
> about.

Perhaps.  

> Thus I could have something to go with my vague original ideas. A
> humakti powerful in Death-magic, but one that sees no problem with
> torture or even the undead (I don't mean that he would raise them, just
> that he is willing to have them used in his presense).
>
> > I don't really think there are light and dark Humakti btw. It seems
> > there are light gods and dark gods. Maybe they get linked in pairs in
> > the philosophy, but it doesn't seem you have gods with a "light side
> > and a dark side".
>
> Hmm... I think you may be wrong there. The Carmanians summoned their
> gods _in_their_Dark_aspects_ for the Four Arrows of Light.

But if you view the gods as having a dark mirror that you don't normally deal with (i.e. Ikadz who is opposed to Humakt) then that's just another way of saying you summoned the Dark Gods.

(That's all far more esoteric than anything I need to worry about these days, and certainly for what you are planning to do, nothing worth bothering with. *grin*)

LC

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