Re: Teshnos in HW: Glorantha and HQ Voices

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_tP9InnMGj1AIQ4IVRkdBaSOr8lIboFZWQ-usUrPdgSMmpMFZH2bbOJcw7hpqXd7V73z>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:50:12 +1300

L C wrote:
> You could make the argument that restitution is supposed to be directly
> to the reborn soul. You killed me, so you provide for me until my new
> adulthood. Or you too are killed, and your murder should weigh heavily
> on how you reincarnate. But who is enforcing this? My family? Me, once I
> have grown to adulthood and someone has determined my past life?

I think the karmic debt is handled by the Zitrs who can read and inscribe the Flame-poems. When a Teshnan commits a crime, he incurs a stain on his life-flame (truly wicked flames burn black like the Atyari Black Fire) that can only be removed by a Zitr. However in doing so, the Zitr may decide upon appropriate restitution and writes that into the flame-poem so that a person may walk around with "Judgement: Must be trampled by an Elephant at the age of 43" or some such.

--Peter Metcalfe