Re: Secrets of the Than

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_OcDFvIyLJy3fab0oOY0T1IY6RzLYUc-i9RO0bw9J8fRj0Lf4TTIni5U-YrIyBmv83-m>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:06:38 +1300


On 11/28/2011 4:05 AM, Peter Larsen wrote:

> Wwe have multiple descriptions of Ogres that use their desire for human meat as a key characteristic.

But not as an intrinsic characteristic nor as the source of their chaos.

> We have one
> description, the Cacodemon cult write up, that ignores it. Isn't it more
> reasonable to assume the cult is wrong, incomplete, or, for whatever
> reason, not interested in cannibalism rather than all the other references
> being wrong?

Except that to make Ogre cannibalism must be chaotic you have to invoke so much special pleading (Cannibalism isn't chaotic if God tells you to do it) to deal with the larger numbers of non-chaotic cannibals that it ceases to be convincing.

--Peter Metcalfe            

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