Re: Questions: Humakti Honor

From: Benedict Adamson <badamson_at_...>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:38:31 +0100


Peter Metcalfe wrote:
...
> > > Secret Murder is an Orlanthi crime.
>
> >It is a Heortling crime; a crime against *society*, not a cult.
>
> It is also an Alakoring crime, a Talasting crime and a
> Sylilan crime. For these reasons, it is permissible to
> speak of an Orlanthi society. The distinction between
> cult and society is irrelevant here as Orlanth makes the
> rules.

Right. Heortling Humakti are as much part of that society as any other Heortling, and so as bound by those mores as any other.

Orlanthi consider Secret Murder to be dishonourable. Humakti prize honour. But you assert that there is no connection between these things. When you consider that Humakt is Orlanth's brother, and honour is clearly important to the Umath's-sons, it is inconceivable that Humakti honour should be greatly different from Orlanthi honour.

Your consistent replies that Humakti need not do X because X is 'Orlanthi' would make sense if Humakti were Vulcans who had recently beamed down into Sartar. But they are not.

Heortling Humakti *are not* social outcasts. They are unusual, true, but no more so than Issarians. Indeed, as followers of an Umath-son, perhaps less so. The severance story explains why they have no wind powers; it does not make them aliens in their own land.

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