Re: Yanafal Tarnils & Humakt

From: tickler <btickler_at_m-UCAguANYvnZNjWNxlDig6FuPlFkiihiKcOupFvdV55Hfzq6LcbS_yF6zXEYqKF0wk>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:05:34 -0000

wrote:
> YT vs Humakt is interesting because Humakt was without his
> Warband/Companions who had chased off the Young Elementals whereas
YT
> had all his boys with him. They fought to a standstill (according
to
> the Yanafali) or Humakt killed Yanafal Tarnils who then came back
to
> life and cheated, acording to the Humakti. (Based on old sources,
this
> may well have changed)

This is why I stayed out of this to this point; but what I've been reading sounds off to me. I am a RQ2 grognard, or so I've been told, and I don't know or care to know about "flavors" of Humakt, and I don't know whether Yanafal Tarnil's backstory has been gregged, etc. But then again this is taking place in Prax. Who cares about other flavors of Humakti? They might as well not exist (arguably better that way in any case ;)...).

For Humakti at Tourney Altar, the central issue is not that Yanafal Tarnils is part of the Lunar pantheon, or that Yanafals Tarnils is weak and allows resurrection...it's that Yanafal Tarnils has no honor and *cheated* to overcome Humakt, and not only cheated but used a form of "cheating" that is anathema...which affords Yanafal Tarnils a unique hatred in the eyes of Humakt's followers. How would you view worshippers of a diety that bested the god you follow via such means?

Something like this, I suspect:

• They follow a perversion of Humakt's way
• They have no honor, and flaunt their perversion openly
• They remind you that your god can be bested, which not only makes you angry at them, but shakes your own faith, which makes you angry at yourself, which you also promptly re-direct to the Yanafal Tarnil's worshipper, of course
• The very existence of Yanafal Tarnils worshippers is an embarrassment, and the fact that they often enjoy a social and geographic position that makes them untouchable/unconfrontable when you run into them makes it that much more important to confront them when they are on your own home turf

I find the complexity of this hatred to be more conducive to interesting gaming situations than simply not liking them for sociopolitical  reasons or because they can use resurrection spells.