I’d like something clarified:
Quote:
. . . For the Unbodied, wandering in the world, are those who at the least have refused the door of life and remain in regret and self-pity. Some are filled with bitterness, grief, and envy. Some were enslaved by the Dark Lord and do his work still, though he himself is gone.
. . . Some say that the Houseless desire bodies, though they are not willing to seek them lawfully by submission to the judgment of Mandos. The wicked among them will take bodies, if they can, unlawfully. The peril of communing with them is, therefore, not only the peril of being deluded by fantasies of lies: there is peril also of destruction. For one of the hungry Houseless, if it is admitted to the friendship of the Living, may seek to eject the fëa from its body; and in the contest for the mastery of the body may be gravely injured, even if it is not wrested from its rightful habitant. Or the Houseless may plead for shelter, and if it is admitted, then it will seek to enslave its host and use both his will and his body for its own purposes. It is said that Sauron did these things, and taught his followers how to achieve them . . .
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Morgoth’s Ring;
The Later Quenta Silmarillion (II); “Laws and Customs among the Eldar”; ‘Of Re-birth and other Dooms of Those That Go to Mandos’:
Tolkien specifically says that the Houseless do one of two things in order to attain a body (what sort of body isn't specified):
- 1.) The Houseless eject the other fëa from its body and inhabit the new body, using it for their own purposes.
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- 2.) The Houseless plead for shelter and if admitted, will try to enslave both the will and body of the host.
Is this where the idea for the game’s Houseless is going? What you’re talking about when you mention “possession” and “seduction”.
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Also, if you proceed with these characters, please limit the playing of them to the planners only. That way, when the character bios for them are submitted, the other moderator and I will be able review them as remaining true to Tolkien’s parameters for them.