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[James Ruhland]

*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bloodlines represent their diety's blessings...and can be withdrawn if they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).

[Adam Theo]

hello, Adam Theo here,
it's possible for a non-cerilian (or non-BR) "regent" to have a
bloodline. after all, BLs are blood of gods, so say that these regents
were blessed somewhere (either in their own lifetime or back in their
ancestory) with a bit of godstuff by a god, for being such a great
mortal. so (i don't know too much about Cormyr, but a good bit about
the far north) way back when, long ago, the regent of early Cormyr was
blessed by some god because this regent aws one great guy, and the god
thought so too. so in FR, there could be BLs of Tyr or Bane, or
Lythander. and the reason that the current BR gods don't do this is
because they just don't have enough of the godstuff to spare. remember,
the BR gods are from a large chunk of the old god's blood, but not all
(maybe only half) so they are doing everything they can just to survive
as gods, let alone spare some to give away.
MHO.
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[Neil Barnes]

On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, James Ruhland wrote:
> 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).

Or for a more Greek influenced idea, they could have Divine Bloodlines
due to Divine antecedants.

"Well, 120 years ago Zeus came down & slept with my Great Grand Mother
as a shower of Golden Rain."

"Uhuh! I bet he did."

"No really, I'm serious."

neil