RE: Re: Summons of Evil from Jeff Richard on 2004-10-09 (Whitewall)

From: Jeff Richard <richj_at_...>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 09:25:48 -0700

I agree with Charles. I think that there is a fundamental misunderstanding of what the Summons of Evil is. It is a Heortling rite that deliberately invites evil into the cermony, so that the Heortlings can defeat it. It is very dangerous and unpredictable - although it gives the summoners an edge, it does not guarantee victory. Nor does it predetermine the foe that will come - I doubt that vargast expected LokoMoko to show up. I doubt the Heortlings expected the Bat. But that is what they got.

Finally, I think there is no way that ceremony was performed without the consent and involvement of Broyan and his ring. The rite is too dangerous and too notorious to be done otherwise. Broyan - or anyone else - would be well within their rights to kill Thrud for perform that rite in Broyan's tula without Broyan's ok.

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Sent:	Sat Oct 09 08:50:21 2004
To:	whitewall_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject:	Re: Summons of Evil

In whitewall_at_yahoogroups.com, John Hughes wrote:

> My personal take on the Summons was
> that it was carried out, not by Bryan
> and 'central command' but by a bored,
> petty, not-too-bright dissident group
> who don't understand walls and seiges
> and strategy and want to go out and
> hit things like heroes should. These
> are Orlanthi after all, and the siege
> has just begun. The hard unity
> lessons are still ahead.

My feeling is that it is part of the underlying "mythics" of Glorantha that opponents will enact their rituals in synchronicity. So experienced HeroQuesters start to recognise that while the role/name of the opponent is different for each of their Quests, behind the mask is a specific person (like Kallyr and Harthdaren?). And the great events of Glorantha, the Sunstop and the Boatrise to name but two, happen because many different peoples without any apparent synchronisation choose to perform a great magic at the same time, thus enabling something monumental to occur.

With this as a guideline, it has to be Tatius that chose to use the Bat and Broyan that leads the Orlanthi Summons of Evil. Not - not necessarily at the same time but at the right time such that the resultant effects occur simultaneously.

regards,
Charles

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