Hrm. I can't deny this seems pretty logical, but for some reason I don't find it completely compelling. I guess I was thinking along the lines of at least some element of 'Vingkot revivalism'. If these rites are now as they've been as they've been for millennia, then it rather undercuts anything by way of "surprise value" it'd have for the lunars, which is supposed to be a (possible) campaign theme, isn't it? (Or I saw this suggestion in some I-I source at one point, I'm sure.) Not that it has to be the kingship aspects as such that as being revived, but it'd fit a (possible) general pattern.
> Broyan can be an ultratraditionalist and still embrace pretty
> radical innovations - the traditions I think he is harkening back to are
> over thirteen centuries old and can be seen as very old school
> Hendreiki. What do you call a guy that is harkening back to the late
> First Age (or maybe even the Vingkotling Age) other than
> ultratraditional!
Indeed. Back to the past, or back to what the past would have been, if it'd've been done right in the first place.
> > What's the applicable myth here -- the 'original' killing of
> the entity
> > that becomes the Bat?
>
> I've been beating my head against the wall on this one - I think
> it should be an old Orlanthi myth and not a Rinliddi one. I think we
> are just going to have to make up a myth about Vingkot (or Orlanth or
> Helemakt) beating the snuff out a flying, unstoppable champion of the
> Fire Tribe.
I suppose Vingkot is indeed the man for the job; the CB has celestial connotations on the one hand (being lunar red), and darkness on the other (what with being a bat, and all). So V. has the very tools, double-fistedly, even.
> Maybe Jagrekriand (in which case we might want to have the
> Shargashi attack right before the Bat), maybe a heroic victory within
> Stormfall (which sets into motion the descent into Darkness), or maybe a
> Vingkotling Chaos Age myth about beating the stuffing out of some awful
> Chaos monstrosity that is attacking Vingkot's Hill Fort (again
> reimphasizing the Darkness).
I suppose ideally, one might try to cast the whole battle as a progression of mythic Vingkot foes, perhaps even encompassing the whole progression of foes (imperial, darkness, chaos), and associated mythic ages. Which isn't to be very helpful about details, I know...
Cheers,
Alex.
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