>
> YGWV
> fairbruk wrote:
> >
> > --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com
> > <mailto:WorldofGlorantha%40yahoogroups.com>, Greg Stafford <Greg_at_>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, let's call it what it is: life and death, or being alive and
> > being dead.
> > >
> >
> > Perhaps better as "cause of life" and "cause of death" - it seems
> > wrong for a living being to have something dead about them.
> >
> > That done "cause of life" has an obvious location, and "cause of
> > death" can be the weapon hand, presumably the right hand.
> >
> OK, I said this wasn't deep, and YGWV, but adding "cause of" to these
> really diminishes their meaning, for me. Why? well, because in fact,
> living beings always have something dead about them, and dead ones some
> taint of life.
My reasoning was that it seemed you planned to assign these aspects to
fixed body parts, and to have one body part always dead in everyone
seemed wrong. It would perhaps be especially wrong in, say, Ernalda.
That said, the thought that an Orlanthi all of people have something
dead in them, varying by person, seems fair. There again it's going to
be rather often an emotional or intellectual aspect that's dead.
Kevin