Re: Ompalam, Malia and other possibly chaotic dieties

From: simon_hibbs2 <simon.hibbs_at_5_8NqmcQnk8UPqCQSUeJAVcEDG8nOTP_y1T8kXxjG-1lpoECB8_Vi6VEPpWpDoDl>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:33:53 -0000

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> > Cannibalism turning people into ogres is a theory. It has evidence.
> > We are told that Ogres are believed to be descended from a human
> > tribe that took the side of Chaos during the Great Darkness, and
> > that they eat people, and that cannibalism can cause a chaos taint.
> > It's a case of connecting these three dots to make a picture, but
> > yes we don't have an explicit published source.
>
> Given that Ogres consider themselves 'overmen' (being stronger and tougher
> does tend to provide evidence for this) their eating of 'lesser men' isn't
> literally cannibalism...

I'd say that mythically they are descended from people who ate other people, therefore magically that is what they are. I think they're human enough for it to count for most magical purposes. After all they are human enough to breed with humans, without the broos special magical exception of being able to mate with anything.

> ...Could it even be that ogres are descended from a
> rogue group of Brithini who were swayed by chaos? To modern Brithini they
> might be considered with horror, not because of their chaos taint, but
> because they impregnate 'animal men' to propagate their race.

There may be more than one origin for Ogres, after all if one community could survive the Great Darkness that way, why not others? That could lead to some interesting local variants.

Simon Hibbs