From:	RAY MACEY <r.macey@*******.qut.edu.au>
Subject:	Re: (Fwd) Goblinization Questions
Date:	Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:56:43 +1000 (EST)

On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Lynn Twiss wrote:

> > Subject: Re: (Fwd) Goblinization Questions
>
>
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Lynn Twiss wrote:
> > > 1 ) Has there been any cases were goblinization has occured after
> > > puberty?

Yes. In changling, the Troll's professor friend was married, had a wife
and kids when he goblinized into a Ghoul.

> > > 2 ) Can goblinization be magical indused into a person that does not
> > > have the triggering gene (if it is a gene that causes gobinization)
> > > If so must the effect happen before the individual has gone through
> > > puberty?
> > >
> > Maically? I dunno. Chemically? yes. Sam Verner (Secrets Of Power Trilogy)
> > was chemically induced into metamorphising into an ork.

It was his sister actually.

>
>
> Chemically? Really?
> That now rises the question of : Before the rise of Magic were there
> people running around with a gene that enabled them to goblinize?

Yes their were. There was people with elvish genes that sometimes were
born elvish (spike babies) and sometimes weren't.

> I thought that the rise of magic was what actually triggered the
> gene. Why weren't there more outbreaks of goblinization earlier that
> 2010? There defenatly is enough gene tampering going on right now
> (1996)

Maybe because the level of magic has to constant and high for actual
goblinisation to occur (This is just a guess/theory). Not as much is
needed to simply breed true (ie be born the appropriate race), but this
can only happen with orks and trolls after they have goblinised i.e. they
have to exist before they can breed true.


Ray.

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