Andrew asks about ducks.

Ducks are twagic. Twagic.

Dwiven by unspweakable atwosities committed against them by the Lunars (who
mistakenly believe the ducks know the deep, deep secwets of the Big Pond*),
many durulz have indeed turned to the thwee ancestwal lords of death, dwead
Hueymakt , Dueymakt and Loueymakt, the death dwakes.

Ducks are serious. Twuly serious.

Many hazia cigaro chewing, uni-ambular, durulz freebooters (though often
only the left boot) haunt the backwoads and twails of Sartar, surviving fwom
day to day and marshalling their powers for the dweadful day when a hewo
will wise to fwee them.

Durultz (only friends dare call them ducks to their face), are indeed
theists, worshipping a pantheon of gods that the Heortlings later adapted as
their own, though giving them human faces and in doing so losing much of
their twuth and power.

Those born of the Cosmic Egg include Hueymakt Deathdrake, Canarda the Pond
Goddess, the Berserker Storm Bill, Mallard Gor the MudSlinger, and Ducka
Fowl, Judge of the Quick, the Dead and the Dwead.

They also wecognise Orlanth, the cold wind who makes circles cwoss the pond,
who stole their wings but pwomised one day to weturn them.

Their ancient enemy is Quackodemon, who laid the Red Egg in the Sky. Dwead
prophecies weveal that if the Red Egg ever hatches, it will welease into the
world Kwakboth, the Devil Weborn. And that could turn a bit nasty.

Ducks like to use the word 'dwead' a lot. They divide the world into twee
basic categowies: quick, dead, and dwead, cwoss-rewerenced by wet, dwy and
soggy. They are also partial to cigars, and will sometimes heroquest for
teeth so they can chew them properly.

* This in my 'humble opinion, is the second biggest mistake the Lunars ever
made. Any fool knows its really the baboons who understand all the secrets
of existence, and will often share them in exchange for some horseflesh or
fruit. The Lunars *biggest* mistake, unwittingly revealed in Nick Brook's
misguided essay on the 'Triumph' Of The Lunar Cosmos, was to try and
out-think Argrath in the utuma Cosmic Sacrifice gambit. They risked the
physical and spiritual form of their Goddess in the hope that the vast
draconic magics of the King of Dragon Pass would unwittingly help her evolve
into her 'new phase'. Doh! As though Argrath, who marched under the banner
of the Youf and who had been plundering EWF secrets since his earliest days
in Pavis, didn't know the tricks and subtleties of a utuma sacrifice. Talk
about being out-suckered...

No weally. I mean really...


John

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- Howard the Duck.