Re: Secrets of the Darkness

From: L C <lightcastle_at_y7MkVSd3dFzBAsvZNojExv9wunYeaOcOqC5hDFqyZ1tRJzOdp8DXSXvJowrruRxm>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:57:03 -0400


Greg Stafford wrote:
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> > >"Esrolia - 10,000" gives their history,
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> Recommended to all who are curious about this particular people.
> Is this some book I missed?
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> At last! Someone points out the connection with Ezkankrkko!
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> > >>> So they are actually a Darkness tribe?
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> > > Yes, they are a darkness tribe.
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> >Are they a separate race of beings? (analogous e.g. to the Alkothi
> human-shaped demons, or the Gold Wheel Dancers?)
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> Yes.
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Wait, The Kitori are a separate race? Was this just back in the Darkness? I got the impression from the other description that they were taught how to be Kitori. Is this then a transformation? Do people learn to be Kitori? (You imply that with the hybrids, but I am unclear now.)
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> >Are Kitori matings subject to the Trollkin curse?
> No. They are not uz, nor descended from Kyger Litor.
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> >And do they "breed true" among themselves, or is there an initiation
> required to make their descendants (or anyone else who qualifies) a
> true Kitori (master of Darkness)?
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> Those who are not hybrids breed true, if they breed at all. It appears
> that the hybrids can undergo an initiation to be freed of a fixed shape,
> and rise (or perhaps better---sink) to their full ancestral powers.
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> > > So they do have actual human relatives, and actual uz.
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> >And possibly Dehori demons as well?
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> Yes, most likely.
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> >Basically, this makes them a superior darkness race (or magical order)
> compared to dark trolls, and possibly even in comparison to mistress
> race trolls.
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> According to some opinions, they are "superior," though such judgments
> are quite superficial.
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