Re: Is Spell Trading the hallmark of a vampire squid?

From: Jeff <richaje_at_ST2Tq31uZFErmsH7eDjZIATA8EoO8Zpbzz4ZSDODqIhTTTnho1TY-QQovmHQG6Pry-cA>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:08:42 -0000

> > I am not sure we even used the word "Draugr" in Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes. I'm not sure it is a particularly Orlanthi word, especially since there are plenty of actual English words that mean the same thing ("ghost").
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> Try telling a Humakti that there is no difference between ghosts (including those cult members whose spirits continue their duty after death) and undead monsters.

That's a byproduct of the RQ rules (sorry RQ fans, but in many ways the rules system did not track the setting particularly well - especially when it came to magic). A ghost who haunts the population is not the same thing as a hero who still defends the population. Not at all. Only foolish philosophers mix that up.

> Orlanthi do, however, not consider spirits of the dead that have simply not gone on to the Courts of Silence to be Unlife. Many spirits of the dead that we might consider ghosts are not considered undead at all IMO.

Of course not. They are not walking dead things but the spirits of the dead. Completely different.

Jeff