heartburn was: Re: travelling north

Gerry Quinn · 14 Jun 2010, 20:03 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:03:38 +0100
Subject: (urth) heartburn was: Re:  travelling north
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From: "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net>
> Jeff Wilson quoted and wrote"
>> > Close enough, except that eidolons are always of the dead.
>>
>> Are they?
>
> Yes. "While I stared in disbelief, Famulimus sang, 'You came too near your
> double once, you know; that was here, in this poor town of stones. Then he
> was gone, and only you remained. Our eidolons are always of the dead. Have
> you not wondered why? Be warned!'" (p-361)

This suggests that they *can* make eidolons of whoever they want, but they 
avoid making eidolons of the living to reduce the probability of such 
unfortunate encounters.

- Gerry Quinn

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