... I'd assume the Humakti then considers said foe already dead, and himself entitled to run him through next time he sees him. Might make an interesting...
Tim Ellis wrote: ... Is that canon? It seems far too democratic and modern. I thought that the Chief choose the ring members. The Chief has to attend to the ...
... Me too (albeit in part because this is how it worked in the Greydog campaign). I suspect that if the fisherfolk were unhappy with Koreng they could raise a...
... That's a very good guestion. I suppose they would not be concidered worthy of killing then. If it was a particularily nasty foe, and the humakti was...
Mikko Rintasaari
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Jul 1, 2002 2:37 pm
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... That's pretty good too. -Adept...
Mikko Rintasaari
mikrin@...
Jul 1, 2002 2:39 pm
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Oh heck, a bunch of comments all in one, mostly because I've been really busy with work and guests. Sigh. ... otherwise of some of the Clan ring posited for...
... I suppose the Humakti would look rather foolish, assuming he realy did want to kill the guy. ... Are you *serious*? Even fleas merit the attention of the...
... I didn't think it did, except that it supports Unicode and OpenType. Certainly, all my earlier TrueType fonts work just fine in OS X. I have no idea what...
... It seems to me that there is a reasonably close parallel to Ministerial appointments in British politics. The next general election may be years off but a...
... This was more or less what I was imagining. ... Definitely. I think the Orlanthti Chief selection process is broadly democratic, in that most people get a...
... to ... Just to clear this up for everyone - although the price of individual books has gone up, existing subscriptions will be honoured, so if you have a...
... This is much more what I was thinking than elections <shudder>. It is a two way contract - the Ring Member is representing a section of the clan, but in...
Paul Andrew King wrote: ... ... It's even worse than that for an unpopular Chief. An important Orlanthi myth is The Slaying of Yelm, which was justified...
... Not sure about that. Orlanth's killing of Yelm, while good and necessary, also began the destruction of the world--which is why Orlanth went to Hell,...
... strife ... (i.e. ... "Jealous Uncle" was used by Wind Lords (River of Cradles, Storm Tribe, though Dara Happans and Pelorians "might not" understand the ...
... who ... It is ... the ... Live ... "You must obey your leader you chose." (I can't remember the precise phrase in KODP....) In Thunder Rebels, (though I...
Tim ... Our Orlanthi games pre-dated Barbarian Adventures, but I think it's unusual for the type of ring to remain constant. The chieftain determines the ring...
... comes ... just a doubt: do you think divination plays a role in this semi- election process? Is it possible that a highly religious bunch of people like...
... Sounds likely, but I expect a lot of the advice would be fairly predictable. "Hm... Let's see. Lankhor Mhy says our lawspeaker should be the Lankhor Mhy...
... It's certainly something I wouldn't want to rule out entirely ... However, doesn't one of the Orlanthi Rex cults (Vingkot High King? I don't have the...
Comrades! The latest book from The Unspoken Word, Ian Cooper's excellent In Wintertop's Shadow: life and adventure amongst the Tarsh Exiles, has gone to the...
... Hmmm. I doubt that the Heortlings would ask the gods "Who should lead us," since picking your leaders is something of an Orlanthi duty (as opposed to the...
... *laughs* That's true, but remember, it was a _humakti_ ambush. A bit of an oxymoron in itself. :) Somebody spoke of Kai from Lexx. One of the more...
