Re: Hon Eel, Elf quest, Maize

From: Jors <g_merigo_at_...>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:28:38 -0000

wrote:
> Jors
>
> >I need to know
>
> >- why the blood sacrifice? what did happen in the questworld?
>
> Because Corn is an evil plant that has its origins in Bliss
> in Ignorance. During the Great Darkness, the fields of
> corn were nourished by the vile rains of the Blood Sun. Since
> the suppression of the Solar Storm, the ignorant farmers
> have been forced to fertilize their crops through blood
> sacrifices performed by the Wizards of Gore because
> nothing else would grown on the barren soil there.
>
> >- is it related to something useful for the elf lord?
> >- btw... I wish i knew who this elf lord is...
>
> There is no Elf Lord. What HonEel thought was an elf
> lord was actually the Corn God himself.
>
> --Peter Metcalfe

thank you very much

• in this case, when they try to replicate the heroine task in a heroquest it is a misappropriated ceremony? or the fact that she succeeded means they should act the same way?
• how did she understand that she had to perform a blood sacrifice (she was told by the corn god? what was she told?)
• where can I read about what you just wrote to me

:O)

thanks again

giorgio