[Glorantha] Ducks and Relife Sickness

[Jane Williams]

> >That's twagic all wight.

> >A condition that tends to lessen the sufferers
> ability
> >to produce offspring, being hereditary. Poor ducks.

> >I can only assume that it's a recessive gene,
> rather
> >like haemophilia, so ducks can pass it on without
> >suffering the consequences themselves. Hmm, would
> that
> >also explain why most Humakti ducks seem to be
> male?
> >Female haemopiliacs don't survive puberty, do
> female
> >sufferers of Relife Sickness have a similar
> survival
> >rate for some reason? Or has this parallel gone far
> >too far?
> 
> About the point at which you introduce genetics.

Donald, are you taking this thread seriously or
something?

> Relife Sickness 
> is a curse inflicted by Humakt on those who escape
> his sword. 

And which by that definition has no reason to apply to
ducks (unless you're Nick Brooke and think all ducks
should be dead).

> Normally it's an individual's problem but the whole
> duck race has  managed to get it. 

And since it clearly wasn't by the "normal" route, we
need a new one. Since genetics don't work in
Glorantha, but do, by a stretch of the imagination,
produce some interesting parallels, that's the sort of
explanation we need for Ducks. "Infertility is
hereditary" - yes!





		
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