Re: SV: [DL] Oldest harrowed

[Fred Jandt <fajandt@yahoo.com>]

SPOILER WARNING!










--- Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com> wrote:
> Spoilers ahead.
> 
> 
> 
>  >However, without a direct link to the Hunting
> Grounds,
>  >I would imagine Harrowed using their powers would
> be
>  >hard to do. So you'd have a bunch of once dead
> guys
>  >walking around with no real extraordinary
> abilities.
> 
> 
> So.
> What you have when the Grounds were closed off is a
> bunch of Harrowed who 
> suddenly lost all of their powers, except for the
> most basic ones of 
> keeping the body alive.  That happened, what, 1600
> or so years before the 
> Reckoning.
> 
> Since that time there have been wars, crusades,
> inquisitions, pogroms, 
> natural disasters, upheavals, chaos, and anarchy -
> all with a supporting 
> cast of millions of folks who tend to destroy
> anything with even the 
> faintest wiff of the supernatural without a second
> thought crossing their 
> minds. . .
> 
> So.
> What you have in 1877 are the survivors of 1600 (or
> so) years of life on 
> this planet.  The most ruthless, mean, cunning,
> manipulative, iron-willed, 
> subtle, intelligent predators to survive the
> darwinian pressures of over a 
> millenia and a half.
> 
> 
> And then he (they?) gets his (their) powers back. .
> .


Real nasty thought, huh. ;)

Fred J.

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Fred Jandt
Freelance writer/editor/designer
fajandt@yahoo.com

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