Re: Death of Orlanth

From: valkoharja <rintasaa_at_tjp3b4iWuzG7XJqHH_7wvAc0QjzVgcpbFPk4x75txLNC3fPxVouoQrZ7JEXcEB0zd0m>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:03:59 -0000

[Adept]
> > Hmm... it sort of sounds like there isn't a clear point when
> > Yinkin would have died

[parental_unit_2]
> This came up in our game. We decided that Yinkin died in the myth
> behind the Catlight Day ritual (described in _Storm Tribe_), but
> that this was a cult secret only known to devotees. In our secret
> version of that myth, Yinkin dies awakening Orlanth so that Orlanth
> can continue the Lightbringer's quest, and Orlanth's gift of food to
> Yinkin is just a parting gift on the off chance that the cat god
> revives.
>
> In our game, the characters used the Catlight Day ritual to revive
> Broyan from the icy refuge he used to escape Whitewall.

That's not bad, and would fit well within local variation, especially with the half-dead state of Yinkin at that stage. Sound like a dangerous ritual though. Did the person(s) taking Yinkin's place in the ritual die, or at least was there the danger of that?

  -Adept