Re: Belintar's Book introduction

From: hcarteau_at_CyOZ8OdW1behoHFGtmr6ZZdF9hEMFEDtbmAwNAB8eYVl1Bhv9qYOKFDz2PWdaDotPLS
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:26:01 +0200


Selon valkoharja <rintasaa_at_p-w2-LlQT7nkPAP570Ccazn9YtAmjwPKHzBhVi7Z-HiXtmDvX29uyVHsheE5plUUPdLJTqQkrg-FSo5vNhno.yahoo.invalid>:

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> > I, the Lord of the World, know that I am going to be taken away.
> > /// He did let Jar-Eel do this to him. He knew in advance she'd come,
> > and let her dismember him. It was all planned.
>
> As if! Perfect characters are dead boring, and it wouldn't even make much
> sense.

/// I like a character with a sense of Doom. He's resolved to die for his dream / community and that gives everything he says/does an air of gravitas which is uncommon in roleplaying. Besides we're talking about Pharaoh here, not some second-rate sellsword.

> More like he foresaw he would most likely be assasinated and not be able to
> stop it. The Belintar Book and whatever plans he has put down are an attempt
> at cheating death once again.

/// That's interesting but too open for my taste. Belintar has a Destiny.

> And it definitely doesn't mean he wouldn't try to stop Jareel... it's just
that Belintars role in the tournament of Luck and Death as is pretty rigid. He probably has no choise in being killed, especially not without derailing the HQ altogether.
/// That's even more interesting. He HAS to die in all cases, he knows it. Everybody in the MoLaD ritual knows it. It's what happens after he dies that's interesting.

> Besides Jareel is a combat monster on par with Harrek. Even the living God in
> the midst of his own HQ would be hard pressed to defeat her.
/// I don't think she fought him as in a "battle". I think she trapped him without a fight. She pretended to be Earth Woman, laid down with him and sacrificied him to the Fields. Only then she cut him up and shot the pieces all around the worlds, with the most important in a deep lunar hell (whom Philippe Sigaud had us force open many years ago. It's a horrendous place).            

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