[Glorantha] Ducks and Relife Sickness

[Mike Gibb]

>From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20 at yahoo.co.uk>
>Reply-To: The Glorantha Digest <glorantha at rpglist.org>>
>That's twagic all wight.
>
>A condition that tends to lessen the sufferers ability
>to produce offspring, being hereditary. Poor ducks.

OT but the pilot of Gerry Anderson's UFO had the aliens coming to steal 
human bodies for spare parts due to the fact that they suffered from 
"hereditary sterility" - go figure that one out...

Plus it's not the case that female haemophiliacs die during puberty 
(although I can see your train of thought). The disease itself is passed 
through the maternal(?) line but the symptoms only exhibit in male progeny - 
which is why so many European princes had it, as they all shared the same 
maternal bloodline at some point on their family tree. There is a similar 
condition where symptoms exhibit in females, it's called Von Willebrands 
Syndrome (sp?) and is even rarer. My friend Fran suffers from this and she 
made it through puberty (although was told if she ever had a child it would 
have to be in a specialist ward in London - bit of a bitch given that she 
lives in Orkney!!)

Back on-topic, but I can see the durulz having a sort of inherited re-life 
sickness, in that they get it from their mum. The females make sure that all 
the nestlings get to hear the myths of how we fought Delecti, how Delecti 
ate Grandpa Donal's brain etc. to ensure that enough of them are 
sufficiently sickened to go out and find the means to protect the nests from 
the hodes of zombies just round the corner.

Face it - if your sons were all cigar-chewing cowards with a speech 
impediment, you'd want to do something to reduce the chances of them being 
bullied in the playground ;-)

Mike
8-)
   xxx