Re: Adept's questions on chaos

From: Michael Hitchens <michaelh_at_N-f75ene8F_g2UEsTo7X3LeQXmCePCcQJm_pLd--Veh358RvMDS_0n48q41A80evNmI>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:53:13 +1000 (EST)


On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Peter Metcalfe wrote:

> Tim Ellis
>
>> --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, Peter Metcalfe
>> <metcalph_at_...> wrote:
>
>>> Having a chaotic feature is pretty much an objective
>>> test of being a chaotic.
>>
>> It's not a cast iron certainty though.
>
> Then provide an example of a chaotic without a chaotic feature.

I've already quoted this, but obviously need to again...

Anaxial's Roster p.181, entry for Ogres
"About 1 in 20 possesses a random Chaos feature" ergo 95% do not
ergo you can be chaotic without having a chaos feature.

(But having a chaos feature makes you chaotic as far as I know)

>> Then there are the creatures that followed the devil (that Jeorg
>> called "Wakboths New Model Chaos")
>
> Except that the Devil is, by and large, a God Learner construct
> woven together out of many different destruction myths.

Then what's under the block?

>> - Bagog and the Scorpion Men, Thed
>> and the Broo, Cacodemon and the Ogres, Vivamort et al - These seem,
>> at least to me as beings of a different sort of Chaos.
>
> Different than what?

Different to gorp? Interesting perhaps if you're into classification, but they are still chaotic.

Michael



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