val Holryn wrote:
On the story side. Though the writing is excellent I find myself saddened and vaguely depressed. Herka might not *BE* evil, but it surely *DOES* a lot of evil. I was reminded both of the plant from Little Shop of Horrors and of Czeslaw Milosz, a Polish refugee, who wrote The Captive Mind on what it was like surviving WWII and living behind the iron curtain. I am glad I never got around to building and playing a Ghost Scale as a PC after reading the section. Their society is as screwed up as Canceri. And less honest. With years abroad in mercenary service there have to be a lot of males who know the party line they are being fed is BS.
And now you know why Ni'Sal of BEAST has converted to the Fire Dragon and, at least informally, aligned with the Black Talon clutch in Milandir. Still...he'd kill you for a gold.