tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20485732.post6160579141546539225..comments2023-10-23T14:43:44.674-05:00Comments on In Like Flynn: World of Samardan: Common Races, The Husrani...Flynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05661073420680953560noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20485732.post-10300398187072033522013-03-14T13:03:24.627-06:002013-03-14T13:03:24.627-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Flynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05661073420680953560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20485732.post-51253563550024213152013-03-14T13:02:52.227-06:002013-03-14T13:02:52.227-06:00I love the mindset of the Kaldanes, and think they...I love the mindset of the Kaldanes, and think they would fit the goals of the Expert Race. Your quotes are well chosen. I'm concerned because if their parasitic nature on the rykors, which crosses over with my concept of the Alien/Other Race as parasitic puppetmasters. Have you read the Kaldane write-up that's in the basic Sword & Planet rules I wrote last year? Flynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05661073420680953560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20485732.post-13799500101012659472013-03-13T18:52:18.411-06:002013-03-13T18:52:18.411-06:00I always had a soft spot for dogs and gnolls ...
...I always had a soft spot for dogs and gnolls ...<br /><br />for the multi-limb expert race consider borrowing the kaldanes from burroughs ...<br /><br /> “With us brain is everything. Ninety per centum of our volume is brain. We have only the simplest of vital organs and they are very small for they do not have to assist in the support of a complicated system of nerves, muscles, flesh and bone. We have no lungs, for we do not require air. Far below the levels to which we can take the rykors is a vast network of burrows where the real life of the kaldane is lived. There the air-breathing rykor would perish as you would perish. There we have stored vast quantities of food in hermetically sealed chambers. It will last forever. Far beneath the surface is water that will flow for countless ages after the surface water is exhausted. We are preparing for the time we know must come—the time when the last vestige of the Barsoomian atmosphere is spent—when the waters and the food are gone. For this purpose were we created, that there might not perish from the planet Nature's divinest creation- the perfect brain." (CM V)<br /><br />Not much larger than a human head, to facilitate work and travel, Kaldanes use their chelae to form a neuronal link with a bipedal headless creature called a rykor. <br /><br /> “The rykors are but brainless flesh. They neither see, nor feel, nor hear. They can scarce move but for us. If we did not bring them food they would starve to death. They are less deserving of thought than our leather. All they can do for themselves is to take food from a trough and put it in their mouths." (CM V) Clovis Cithoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18208194219083373456noreply@blogger.com