> Does anybody have a theory as to the connection between ducks and the death rune/gods
> associated with death?
A purely mundane reason is that the ducks of Sartar share the Upland Marsh with Delecti and all the undead creatures he controls. Humakt provides lots of magic for dealing with the undead so a higher than normal proportion of ducks follow him.
Not that I think there are anything like the proportion of Humakti ducks that the sources imply. Most follow Orlanth and Ernalda like all good Sartarites and there's probably a fair number of Helerites. After all the Upland Marsh is an area which can't decide whether it is land or water so there's probably an aspect of Heler which deals with that.
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Donald Oddy
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