: Rebuttal to the rebuttal: If the crow didn't have to be
: possessed by a living being, why did Myrdred tote it
: everywhere he went? And Bungie oversaw the writing of
: GURPS; if the author's saying Myrdred's alive was a
: mistake, why didn't they catch it? It'd be a pretty
: big error.
The big factor seemed to be him killing the crow. If the dark got it, someone probably could have used a restore-life spell of some kind on it. Myrded probably kept it rather than destroying it because he wanted to use it for something later.