Re: Ducks o' Death or Ducks and the Death Rune

From: Stewart <stu_stansfield_at_fONCLlGky39DlD2YQzOXv_uvPvc6WAHU0PN5MNGcNDaHJR7Y1GCIU2H-r8vwA>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 08:41:17 -0000

> Does anybody have a theory as to the connection between
> ducks and the death rune/gods associated with death?

The most profound [sic: these are ducks] theory I've seen, from Greg via David, was touched upon here:

http://glorantha.temppeli.org/digest/nbelldigest/1991.03/0263.html

I've never really seen them worship other Death gods*. In my opinion, I believe they worship Humakt not out of some mythic imperative, but because they're min-maxing rules lawyers, and can abuse the Gifts/Geasa system to their little hearts' content. Yelmalio's not an option unless you have loaded dice - too risky.

Quite a few ducks started worshipping Thanatar when Cults of Terror came out, actually. But it's a bit hard to garrotte most races when you're a duck. And carrying a stepladder around gets tiring for an adventurer after a while. So that experiment didn't get very far.

*Which surprises me, as Wachaza had some munchkin-y spells. And ducks have the Water rune and stuff in WB&RM, so they could probably out-argue a GM if they set their minds to it.