Re: Adept's questions on chaos

From: bryan_thx <bethexton_at_9yIzDj_osYKzRYDsGeKMhBV0EwM7PBBkHhc8by2r6kB4v9MM1slfVI75_Kp_hSHkvM>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:24:13 -0000

• In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "L.Castellucci" <lightcastle_at_...> wrote:
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  > Mmm... Chaos....
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  > > The practical thing I was thinking about was that is it safe to eat
  > > chaotic things, if they are othervice edible?
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  In one of the old runequest fanzines, was there not something on how to eat Walktabpus? If so, that would imply that eating a chaos creature does not automatically put you at risk of being chaotic. However so many are unclean in so many other ways, that I expect most chaotic thingies are simply burned or left somewhere remote.

The implications of myths in Thunder Rebels and the King of Dragon Pass computer game is that, at least to the Heortlings, chaos is mostly a spiritual corruption. If there is a kinslaying in the clan, a chaos outburst is likely to follow--you've ruptured the rules of the universe, give chaos a way in. So by that logic chaos taint would not follow a modern disease model, but rather would all be more about 'purity' of action and belief. When dealing with chaos things, even dead ones, I can well believe that each culture would prescribe certain actions necessary to prevent spread of the taint.

--Bryan