You could treat disease essences as a specrum of "wrongness" essences that try to make their victim into the Platonic idea of wrongness that they represent. Heck, maybe cancers are essences....
Peter Larsen
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Todd Gardiner <todd.gardiner_at_CPqnYFmmyUnHYErP-Jb5wED5pq0u9UoIiczyk66DMDwjayn0LuHaFEBjlDtE3RDe8qNB5dgHUa7rc2nftg.yahoo.invalid>wrote:
> Hard to imagine a world in which parasites don't exist, whether they are
> tapeworms, ringworm (a fungus), or even mistletoe (which is a
> plant-on-plant
> parasite). Pathogen just takes that idea down to the cellular or viral
> level.
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> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:16 PM, markmohrfield <markmohrfield_at_-44fXQF7sWdVw-MCCrUE-vlxM8jvHnxZfqRYVqvROHDFLVcziiGySjL0Q0e-xHsvqdRiyBgFrvFfguaggl-PVIQ.yahoo.invalid
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> > --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com<WorldofGlorantha%
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> > Peter Larsen <p3larsen_at_...> wrote:
> > >No disease, as far as I know, are caused by germs, bacteria,
> > > or anything "real world,"
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> > I remember that Sandy Petersen, i believe, once speculated that the worst
> > Gloranthan diseases were indeed caused by purely natural means, and what
> > made so dangerous was that no one had a way to cope with them! (I
> personally
> > don't buy this one, but YGMV.)
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> > Mark Mohrfield
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