James Ruhland
11-08-1997, 02:12 AM
*Someone will, and should, correct me, if I've got that wrong; Frankish is
not my lingo.
>
> I was kinda' wondering: Are King Arthur (esp. from Excalibur), and
> Strad von Zarovitch of Ravenloft blooded? If so, could they rule a
Cerilian
> domain?
>
If it makes sense in your campaign for them to be blooded, they are. And
you gave a good acount of why they should be considered blooded (I still
like that scene in Excalibur, when they find the Grail & bring it to him,
then go forth to battle, with the land springing back to life all around
them... the most powerful image in the movie, IMO.)
>
Does that mean they are blooded in the BR sense? Not nessisarily (they were
not at Desimar, did not inherit one of the lines from the gods, etc)...but
it doesn't mean they are not, either (new bloodlines for your own campaign
world)? It is stuff like the examples that you gave that makes BR plausable
in other settings (you could come up with Dark bloodlines for the Ravenloft
setting, if you wanted to have a campaign there that used BR rules for
realms, etc; more 'gifts' from the badguys that run the demiplane, the
bloodlines available would *not* be nice, and the various lords would be,
effectively, that plane's version of Awensheiglien...oh, wait, they already
are). Arthur could be blooded, the king of Cormyr could be, etc., using
similar examples to the ones you gave (perhaps with diferent backstories.
I.E. they didn't recieve bloodlines from the death of the gods, but the
bloodlines represent their diety's blessings...and can be withdrawn if they
fail to please that god. I.E., represents the "divine right of kings" (in a
European setting influenced by Byzantine theories of authority), or the
"mandate of Heaven" (in a oriental setting influenced by Chinese theories
of authority).
not my lingo.
>
> I was kinda' wondering: Are King Arthur (esp. from Excalibur), and
> Strad von Zarovitch of Ravenloft blooded? If so, could they rule a
Cerilian
> domain?
>
If it makes sense in your campaign for them to be blooded, they are. And
you gave a good acount of why they should be considered blooded (I still
like that scene in Excalibur, when they find the Grail & bring it to him,
then go forth to battle, with the land springing back to life all around
them... the most powerful image in the movie, IMO.)
>
Does that mean they are blooded in the BR sense? Not nessisarily (they were
not at Desimar, did not inherit one of the lines from the gods, etc)...but
it doesn't mean they are not, either (new bloodlines for your own campaign
world)? It is stuff like the examples that you gave that makes BR plausable
in other settings (you could come up with Dark bloodlines for the Ravenloft
setting, if you wanted to have a campaign there that used BR rules for
realms, etc; more 'gifts' from the badguys that run the demiplane, the
bloodlines available would *not* be nice, and the various lords would be,
effectively, that plane's version of Awensheiglien...oh, wait, they already
are). Arthur could be blooded, the king of Cormyr could be, etc., using
similar examples to the ones you gave (perhaps with diferent backstories.
I.E. they didn't recieve bloodlines from the death of the gods, but the
bloodlines represent their diety's blessings...and can be withdrawn if they
fail to please that god. I.E., represents the "divine right of kings" (in a
European setting influenced by Byzantine theories of authority), or the
"mandate of Heaven" (in a oriental setting influenced by Chinese theories
of authority).