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Message no. 1
From: Niels Broberg <ncb@***.KU.DK>
Subject: Passions ? (was Re: Distractions)
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:06:34 +0100
On Wed 27 sep Dave Stone Wrote :

> Don't make it a bughunt. Make 'em live there(they can't get past
>the UCAS watchers), and have 'em care about someone. My players are
>trying to save a kid who's a Shaman of Myrnbruje<sp?>, a Passion from
>Earthdawn, who does strange things, and sees strange things...;)
>
>Dave

OK, I've heard a lot about these "Passions" and I know it's something from
EarthDawn and theres also a small note about it in the Tir Taingire Book

But what is it ?

thanks,
Niels Broberg - NCB@***.KU.DK

A mace in your face,
will make you race with haste,
to the nearest plastic surgeons place.
Message no. 2
From: Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Passions ? (was Re: Distractions)
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 21:23:41 +0930
Niels Broberg wrote:
>
> OK, I've heard a lot about these "Passions" and I know it's something from
> EarthDawn and theres also a small note about it in the Tir Taingire Book

Passions are the Totems of the ED world. Except they don't behave like
Totems, but more like Norse gods.

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Robert Watkins bob@**.ntu.edu.au
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Message no. 3
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Passions ? (was Re: Distractions)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 10:30:28 +0100
> From: Niels Broberg <ncb@***.KU.DK>

> OK, I've heard a lot about these "Passions" and I know it's something from
> EarthDawn and theres also a small note about it in the Tir Taingire Book

Passions are the gods of the ED world.

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Message no. 4
From: Jani Fikouras <feanor@**********.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
Subject: Re: Passions ? (was Re: Distractions)
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 14:50:09 +0100
Niels Broberg said:
> > Don't make it a bughunt. Make 'em live there(they can't get past
> >the UCAS watchers), and have 'em care about someone. My players are
> >trying to save a kid who's a Shaman of Myrnbruje<sp?>, a Passion from
> >Earthdawn, who does strange things, and sees strange things...;)
> >
> >Dave
>
> OK, I've heard a lot about these "Passions" and I know it's something from
> EarthDawn and theres also a small note about it in the Tir Taingire Book

Well passions put rather bluntly are the "gods" of ED. If you look into
it however you'll see that they are more like our current day totems than
any gods we have today. Passions represent a certain state of mind, an
ideal condition, much as totems do. There is for example the passion of
love, the passion of lies etc.

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"In my mind I see the matrix, and in the matrix is held the power. The lock
to the matrix is my will, and in the matrix my will becomes the power."
Message no. 5
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Passions ? (was Re: Distractions)
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 11:56:08 +0100
Jani Fikouras said on 29 Sep 95...

> Well passions put rather bluntly are the "gods" of ED. If you look into
> it however you'll see that they are more like our current day totems than
> any gods we have today.

Without trying to get flamed by anyone, I think you mean than any
_western_ gods we have today.

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