[HoE] Re: Undead Psyker Rebellion

[Gwydion758@aol.com]

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.

I actually doubt there would have been ANY harrowed coming directly from the
bombs.  With the Reckoners appearing in the flesh, they would have wanted to
quickly consolidate their position and crushed any survivors in their paths as
fast as possible.  There would have been no time to waste with fighting for
dominion when the bodies would work as walking dead just as well.

After the fact would be different.  You have those annoying heroes and their
friends trying to fight back, so you have to keep tabs on them and keep
knocking them down so they don't pull a fast one with the time-line.  You want
to keep the survivors off-balance, and keep them from trusting each other.  So
the occaisional harrowed makes sense.

That's my .04 (I get double time for working THIS late).

Jeff