Re: [HoE] Re: Undead Psyker Rebellion

["Eric Brennan" <aerainc@erols.com>]

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From: Gwydion758@aol.com <Gwydion758@aol.com>
To: hoe@gamerz.net <hoe@gamerz.net>
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 1:44 AM
Subject: [HoE] Re: Undead Psyker Rebellion


>Guys, I think you're missing one salient point here.  Manitous don't just
>randomly decide they're gonna bind themselves to some stinking piece of
>freshly dead meat.  It is a considerable hardship for them and they only do
it
>because they are forced to.  I mean, a walking dead is one thing -- they
move
>in, do some deeds, then move on.  But a harrowed is something else
entirely.
>If the original spirit holds on, that demon is STUCK.
>
>They only do this because someone bigger and badder than they are forces
them
>to.  And those guys do it because they have a reason for that particular
>person to be harrowed.  Maybe they were skilled killers, maybe they were
>trusted and loved by a lot of people and could cause great unrest by
seeming
>to become evil, whatever the reason there IS a reason.   So you're not
going
>to get every 54th person who died in the Last War coming back harrowed.
<SNIPPAGE OF MORE STUFF>
    Well, my primary thought _did_ concern the walking dead.  I figured
there would be only as many harrowed as were in the Wierd West.  (Only the
bravest lost souls and all that.)  But the walking dead would be more...
plentiful.  Whole cities of it, a la Day of the Dead.
    My hypothesis was created whilst under the impression that the gates to
the Hunting Ground had opened wider in the Wasted West than in the 1870s.  I
thought Manitous were pretty thick on the ground now that the four Cooks of
the Apocalypse were no longer minding the pot.  Also, I thought the act of
burning ghost rock freed up more evil souls.  After 200+ years of burning
it...
    Anyway, this is all pieced together on my part from my reading of every
book in the game last month.  Given that type of rushed timeline for
reading, I may have confused everything with everything else.  Please feel
free to correct me.
--Eric