| From: | IronRaven cyberraven@********.net |
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| Subject: | Spirits of War |
| Date: | Thu, 15 Jul 1999 08:20:35 -0400 |
>honorably. What has made modern wars much more horrific is the de-
>personalization of the whole affair.
No argueement. I'd much rather get tagged by a long range rifle man that
has to SEE me and concously choose to remove my life, than get a couple
hundred pounds of high explosives dropped in my face by some shmuck at 40K
who is cruising along at a high fraction of the speed of sound.
>saying the same thing Quindrael is, namely that spirits of war would
>virtually always be toxic. Fighting for The Cause (hm, a NOFX song :) may
I think that this is going to come down to a difference of interpretation.
I see the Spirits of Man in SR to be the embodiments of idealised aspects
of man's nature. Conflict is a large part of man's nature.
There are honorable reasons to go to war. These IDEALS are what form the
normal forms of a War Spirit (perhaps it should be named a Spirit of
Defense, but I don't stoop to political correctness). The way that I would
have one act is tired, sad and generally wishing it could be someplace
else, and it ask you if you were really sure the situation had come to a
point were violence was the only way. The cost toraising one would include
nightmares, and an odd, haunted, gutted feeling that lasts for a long time.
Toxic forms would not manifest looking all that healthy, and they would be
pushing you to use more force than is needed and would involve
noncombatants. They would be eagre for conflict, and thier cost would be
that they follow you (you let the little demon out, you have to put him back).
I know that it doesn't totally jive with the book, but my opinion of the
book when it comes to magic is even worse than my opinion on the SRII range
tables.
CyberRaven
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"Once again, we have spat int he face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
"Briar Rabbit to Briar Fox; I was BORN in that briar patch!"
