: I reread GURPS today (yet again) and suddenly it struck
: me....is GURPS wrong yet again???
: The general theory, if I got it right, is Culweyh
: 'invented' the wights. Wheter Culweyh is Shiver or
: whatever I will leave untouched, it's been discussed
: already.
: Anyways, the wights r the messengers of Culweyh, but in
: GURPS it says they're a natural evolution of a ghast.
: A wight it says, is a badly decomposed Ghast. Which
: strikes me as odd. Any self respecting
: fallen/necromancer/leveller/avatar can, if he can
: summon undeadz at all, create a ghast. A ghast is like
: basic undead science...not even up to thrall
: standard....but they, OUT OF THE BLUE, evolve in2
: higher undead science: a wight.
: Why are they called the messengers of culweyh?? I bet
: culweyh wasn't the first to create a ghast. So either
: gurps is wrong again, or we need to revise a
: theory....
I believe, based upon this information, that it's possible to have Ghasts evolve into Wights. In "Sons of Myrgard", for instance, we see Wights being farmed. They could likely have been Ghasts at first, but walking around in those rings for a while, baking in the sun, they turned into wights. The only problem is that it would take a lot of time to make a Wight via Ghast, but that's something that follows in the next part of this.
Shiver/Culweh/The-Voiceless-One/Ravanna (during her Culweh stage) was probably the first to cultivate a Ghast long enough for it to become a Wight (she probably investigated a hunch by accelerating a Ghast's natural evolution by exposing it to more of the natural elements, such as sun, heat, weather, making it age and decay into a Wight faster).
Then again, GURPS is probably just wrong, as always :-).
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