At 03:36 PM 8/10/98 -0600, you wrote:
>According to the Atlas of Cerilia (pg 16), an "awnshegh is any creature
>imbued with the blood of Azrai that traps divine essence within itself
>rather than giving it back to the land."
>
>Well, what would happen if a good aligned creature imbued with say, the
>Blood of Haelyn, kept their portion of divine essence instead of
>returning it to the land? Would it evolve into a good aligned awnshegh?
>
There were some examples of this in the Blood Enemies lesser awnshegh
section and in the Brecht sourcebook. These are called Ernshegh, I think.
There is the Trecht in the Brecht sourcebook and the Unicorn from blood
enemies that was not of Azrai's blood. I can't remember which blood
though. I don't think it has ever been decided (or I missed it) what the
actual requirement or stimuli that is needed to provoke this in the
Non-Azrai blooded. In the Blood Ebemies sourcebook most of the Ernshegh
there were formed at or near the time of Deismaar, so a very, very strong
bloodline could be the cause there but that wouldn't explain the new ernshegh.

>And on this note, I have always understood this 'divine essence' to be
>the bloodline & strength. If this is so, then all blooded individuals
>are trapping the godly essence instead of returning it are they not? So
>what makes an awnshegh so different? Is it just the amount of essence?
>
I think it is a little of both. Most awnshegh tend to have powerful blood
lines compared to most regents and I always believed that they have "bad
blood", or the blood corrupts, so the actual essence of the blood of Azrai
is to create deviants from the land. The rest of the scions bloodlines
seem to be more natural and accepted by the land.

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>Seems I have thought myself into a corner again....
>
>Keith
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