That's absolutley great. Could the thing only be defeated via a Hero Quest? How do you kill something which won't die? Why is it that it can manifest and be hacked apart and yet not perish? I admit, my knowledge of Gloranthan spirituality is at a fairly novice level..either way, your response has been really inspiring.
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> Selon In_a_flat_field <beautychokes_at_...>:
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> what precisely is The Thing With Many Bodies? My PC's clan has this as their
> ancient enemy and it sounds pretty ominous.
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> /// The only place I've seen it detailed is in "GATHERING THUNDER", an older
> book about Sartar;, an perhaps in the Dorastor book, much older still. So I'll
> mix what is written in there and what I make up.
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> The thing of many bodies (no capital letters) is PREDARK. It means CHAOS. It
> means a thing outside the worlds, a perversion, an horror which must be
> exterminated. Nothing is worse than chaos. All sane men must destroy it. The
> lunars worship it and that's one of the reasons they must be destroyed
> themselves.
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> Specifically, this "thing" cannot hold a specific shape for more than a certain
> time, perhaps only a few minutes or hours. It switches back and forth between
> shapes, many of which I suspect are a twisted mixture of its previous victims.
> Some of your clan's ancestors probably fell victim to it and your clan want to
> free them for eternal torture as part of the thing. It's not easy - so far the
> clan has failed and its heroes die everytime they try.
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> In battle, the Thing switches from a writhing mass of tentacles to a single
> giant flailing tentacles. It regenerates like crazy. It would make a more
> interesting long-term ennemy with some form of intelligence. I suggest it uses
> part of your ancestors' intelligence and is drawn back from time to time to your
> clan lands. It takes an innocent, harmless-looking shape and tries to infiltrate
> the clan. Being a chaotic thing, it's often discovered and hacked to bits before
> it destroys the whole clan. But it takes new victims every time.
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> What do you think ?
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