Living Source Manifestations

[JD Lail]

Couldn't a source manifest itself as a living creature ? If so
it might well be very hard to find and then you have to catch
it ! As is usually the case with me if anyone else has proposed
this before Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa. :)

L8R

[BenandAmy]

- -----Original Message-----
From: J. D. Lail
To: birthright@MPGN.COM
Date: Sunday, October 04, 1998 1:57 AM
Subject: [BIRTHRIGHT] - Living Source Manifestations


>Couldn't a source manifest itself as a living creature ? If so
>it might well be very hard to find and then you have to catch
>it ! As is usually the case with me if anyone else has proposed
>this before Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa. :)
>
>L8R
>
>************************************************** *************************
>> I've heard it mentioned that the bones of a dead dragon in an area or
something would influence the source level, but I don't know about it
working the other way. Were you listening to Enigma when you wrote that?

[Mark A Vandermeulen]

On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, J. D. Lail wrote:

> Couldn't a source manifest itself as a living creature ? If so
> it might well be very hard to find and then you have to catch
> it ! As is usually the case with me if anyone else has proposed
> this before Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa. :)

This is a neat idea. I can see it work playing off the idea from the
Arthurian legends of the "white hart" which seems to taunt hunters and
then leads them either to their death, or gets them lost, or leads them to
a significant encounter, etc., but never seems to actually get caught.
(I'm not remembering the tales very well, sorry.) It might be an
interesting story, perhaps the hart is the trapped soul of a wizard who
was killed while accessing his sources, and now haunts the province trying
to restore justice to the land. I can see this especially as applicable to
Osoerde; perhaps Raenech's men killed "the Swamp Mage" but instead of
dying, he was reincarnated as a hart before he lost his connection to his
sources.

Mark VanderMeulen
vander+@pitt.edu