Bravo for the enlightening tale of this sorry creature !
Selon Ian <ilikemonkeys.geo_at_2LRvQEUpOmdMB_16O1finCTYsO1Cq0dQaw2Qq5HT8uzG8Xu0PCHRDRWynsa8d-j9bO-8burp5-Edg_7_c1xXqOavlQ.yahoo.invalid>:
> In the many destructions and upheavals of the late Fourth Action, a
> population of Eskaval, the children of Menaken the Walker and Selenvath the
> Eluse, were driven out of Danmalastan. As was their nature, they went deeply
> into hiding, far from the turmoil of the Wars of Low Magic and the Death of
> Malkion.
>
> In the Darkness, they were forced into pens by a clan of Ogres, who cut off
> their tails, one by one, to make soup. But the Eskaval used their hiding and
> escaping spells to flee. In a battle over the meagre lichen in the north,
> fought against spirit elk, they lost their shining antlers. Zzabur cast a
> mighty spell to bring any errant Ancient Animals back to the West, but the
> panicked Eskaval dug their golden hooves into the ground, and used their
> remaining hiding and escaping magic to resist. Even then, their tongues were
> pulled and stretched out to ludicrous lengths before the spell was broken.
> Their hooves now dull and brown, they ran south and east.
>
> Without their Essential hiding magic, their numbers were greatly reduced by
> monsters and predators, but as the worlds got mixed up and heterogeny via
> Chaos began to be the norm, they stole much hiding magic from spirit and god
> animals that had their own ways of staying safe. They became less and less
> like their majestic cousins who remained pure. They stole the hiding stripes
> from spirit-zebra, and some of the spirit-giraffe's lookout neck-magic. They
> took the silent cough of god-leopards and stillness from god-deer. Each
> stolen bit of magic marked the no-longer-Eskaval with its taint.
>
> The ridiculous amalgam that entered into the Dawn is called the Okapi, and it
> is hunted by everyone. Their misfortune illustrates to us today that should
> one be tempted to seek succor from pagans and primitives, the price is always
> one's Essential nature, and loss of Solace, hunted by the false gods and
> hungry spirits of the world.
>
> --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "bachelornewtling"
> <mrjibberjabber_at_...> wrote:
>
> > Do Okapi exist in Glorantha?
> > If so how did they come about [there is the immediate MGF idea], and how to
> the Praxians feel about them?
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