Cannibalism

[Chakravanti]

Cannabalism has long been a tradition around the world. Typically in these parts the sentiment was to gain the power of our anscestors (or slain enemies).

We're a long way from brains, hearts, livers and other cool edible body parts but they've been hinted at before by Loftar and I should like to see us gain the ability to eat our loved ones/enemies and gain their wisdom/strength/courage/etc. as was practiced by ancient pagans.

[Potjeh]

Uhm, you got any sources to confirm that cannibalism was common practice in Slavic and Germanic cultures?

Also, if you gain anything from it, it should be prion diseases.

[Chakravanti]

nah i just think it's fun.

[Potjeh]

Don't get me wrong, messing with corpses is fun, but cannibalism just seems like something more fit for new Indies than Europe. Something more appropriate would be ritual desecration of corpses, lots of bog mummies have had their nipples and noses cut off, and shit like that. Dunno how it'd be useful the game, maybe it should be required for witchcraft or something (I'm for magic, but only subtle magic).

[Chakravanti]

Pre-Greek and latin/middle eastern cannabalism was actually where it was most rife. The Indies were more proliferate but as you can imagine, it was much more common in the desert than anywhere else and more often a formality of tradition in the indies than regular sustenance.

The bronze/iron age are well outside of cannibalistic traditions of the area having more than enough agricultural abundance to sustain a cleaner tradition of cremation and/or burial.

Also, the prion diseases thing is bullshit. Yes they're real, yes cannabalism can transmit the disease. The incidence is actually quite low however unless you're eating someone known to be afflicted (though typhoid marys are probable in an outbreak).

But speaking of death in general I'd very much like to see funeral pyres which can be built on rafts and doused with distilled alcohol. Choice of burial methods, practice of cannibalism etc. could be associated with 'religious' traditions depending on the choices of the village certain deities might gain or disdain favor for certain types of practices.


slaying enemies of your god could convey benefits and favor given (or lost) according to your method of disposing of their corpses. It should be both on a community and an individual level and deities' whims could overlap so a givern village might have favor with one or two but individuals would follow a larger variety personally depending on your character's 'class'.

[Wolfang]

During all times of need canibalism has been done in every part of the world. During every famine, even just 1 or two centuries ago, people used to eat humans for food.

[dra6o0n]

Too bad that as soon as it gets implemented, SOMEONE will eventually run some kind of zombie group and go kill people just to eat them.

[Chakravanti]

That's the idea...

[OvShit]

As for Slavic religion stuff, people were used for pagan rituals but, it seems, they weren`t food for themselves. Thus, I guess, some kind of temple - kapiche(капище), built on special "force place", can be used to turn people`s corpses into LP/stats/numen. Let`s say we`d only have 100 such places all over the world, so only fastest and most powerful would have this new source of char growing.

[Chakravanti]

I mean you can PK to gain XP from your kill I don't see why you shouldn't get FEP's too. THat's all it' snot a realism argument.