: Which leads into another question--if Shades are
: reanimated Avatara, why are Avatara so lax about
: getting rid of their bodies? It'd seem to be an
: obviously wise policy to cremate or vaporize every
: dead Avatara; for Avatara to carry spells which would
: immediately destroy their bodies upon death; for
: Avatara to nuke themselves when death was imminent in
: enemy territory. Mazzarin in particular should have
: gone out with a bang when he realized he was about to
: get dropped by the Watcher, of all people.
GURPS (excuse me) says that people don't cremate corpses because long ago in a time far away or whatever, people made biggester, baddyer, and more eviller things out people's ashes. Remember my Ashrak creature design?