- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "L.Castellucci"
<lightcastle_at_...> wrote:
>
>
> On April 18, 2007 09:38 pm, Peter Metcalfe wrote:
> > I do believe I excluded Krarsht on the grounds that she didn't have
> > a chaos rune in Cults of Terror. I was hitherto unaware that the
> > same was true for Thed, Bagog and Vivamort.
>
> Out of curiousity, I looked.
>
> In Cults of Terror, every single write up has the chaos rune except for
> Krarsht.
> In Lords of Terror, she explicitly has the chaos rune.
>
> Now, while I have no particular reason to think she isn't chaotic
(the lack of
> the rune in one source isn't very convincing to me), there's
certainly enough
> ambiguity to make the argument. It becomes a bit tricksy to figure out
> exactly what she IS, then, though. (She does give feats, so isn't
just a
> monster. Is she theistic? Is she an underworld goddess, related to the
> trolls? She tunnels, she eats everything, and is always hungry.)
>
> Personally, I like her Chaotic, and see no reason to go against the
standard
> view of most sources.
>
> LC
I was going to write this, but LC did a good of it before I got to it.
There's exactly one data point to make one think Krarst isn't chaotic,
and huge amount of data to suggest she is. I think Peter is alone on
this one.
Unless Greg says othervice, I'd say Krarst is a chaos goddess, and one
of the coolest in my opinion.