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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GCS d s+: p1 a-->? C++++ UA++$S++L+++>++++ L+++ E--- W+ N+ w(--) M-- !V(--)
PS+ PE Y+ PGP-- @*++ 5++ X++ R+++ tv++ b++ G+++ e++ h+(*) r

"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."