At 01:15 AM 3/18/2003 -0600, Eosin wrote:
>Hey Gary, let me add to your question a little. Should the Lost (or any
>other hand selected, avatar-like being) have a bloodline and how high should
>it be considering that it was directly granted.
We know very little about the Lost. Personally, I don`t think they should
have the equivalent of a bloodline. Bloodline should be in some way
connected to Deismaar. The Lost could just be guys given the ability to
cast True magic, or maybe not even that. I rather like the idea that they
were simply people who were granted the ability to take levels in a class
much like the magician but instead of specializing in divination and
illusion they could have access to schools like necromancy and shadow.
My response to your question is that I believe that they could grant a
bloodline (invest a part of themselves) into select champions. But I do
not know if it should be hereditary. These guys would be more akin to
Saints than to dynastic blooded heroes, from my POV anyway.
Whether or not its possible, or how its possible isnt what Im really
worried about. The Lands Choice is powerful enough to create new bloodlines out of nothing, and Im assuming it is powerful enough to create
entirely new derivations for those new bloodlines. Oh, maybe it took a few
centuries for Aebrynia/Gaia to figure out how to do that, but after
experimentation on various mortal test subjects now She/He/It… They can
create whole new bloodlines based on derivations that don`t exist–except
as progeny of the gods themselves. Who knows what maniacal combinations
They might be able to create after They master the combinations that
produced Cuirecen, Laerme and Eloele? Will the Land itself spawn new
bastardized bloodline derivations based on the mingling of Kreisha and
Ruornil? Avani and Belenik? Could the power that resides in the very
earth experiment with the blood of Azrai himself? The motives of such a
being are far beyond our ken…
But fortunately it doesnt matter for now. What Im curious about is which
of the extant blood abilities might a posited bloodline derivation of
Cuirecaen, Laerme or Eloele have? Heres a list that folks can just cut and paste, deleting the ones they dont think are appropriate for each of
those gods.
Alertness, Alter Appearance, Animal Affinity, Battlewise, Blood History,
Bloodmark, Character Reading, Courage, Detect Lie, Detect Illusion,
Direction Sense, Divine Aura, Divine Wrath, Elemental Control, Enhanced
Sense, Fear, Healing, Heightened Ability, Iron Will, Persuasion, Poison
Sense, Prot. from Evil, Regeneration, Resistance, Shadow Form, Touch of
Decay, Travel, Unreadable Thoughts.
There are more, of course, but those are the ones from the original RB.
Gary
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