Oh god. I just had
the best idea.
Okay, so the Lintha are messed up and I've been kind of considering how to salvage something from them - I could just slaughter them all, but that would get me into hot water with Kimbery, though technically so might rescuing them from a slow death to entropy and cultural poison. W/e, I'll deal with that later. The culture is basically unsalvageable for the most part; they're too racist, too psychotic and too proud to listen to Keris. I'm kind of thinking I'll probably just wind up stealing some of them with Theft As Release to wipe their memories of where they came from and then spirit them off to a terraformed island somewhere.
I'll still need to get some anti-Crippling tech to fix the obvious, and also - and this is the fun bit - find some way to boost their Breeding. Possibly via a Genesis ritual Working, probably sacrificing other Lintha as components to sort of concentrate the purity of the blood.
The thing I just realised is that I may well, potentially, be able to do this
openly by playing Keris the Baptist, come straight from Kimbery herself. If you brave immersion in the baptismal font she uses, and you are strong enough and devoted enough to the Great Mother and
worthy enough, you will rise purer of blood and stronger of spirit than ever. If you don't, of course, the Great Mother will kill you for your insolence and presumption.
Or, to put it another way, the Working has two effects; "increase Breeding" and "liquify for Breeding potential", can only do the former if it has enough of the latter as fuel, and Keris decides which one to activate based on how much of a problem the Lintha in question is going to be to her.
Sasi: "... I'm almost impressed at the ruthlessness of the scheme. And also the fact that you've managed to keep them from realising what you're doing."
Keris: "So mean! Anyway, I told them exactly what I'm doing! I just... omitted a few details."
Sasi: "... yes. You're good at that, aren't you? ¬_¬"
Keris: "^_^"
That's what Neomah are for.
.......
Can Lintha use Neomah or is that a cultural taboo? My grasp on them is pretty bad.
Their cult is intentionally designed to be self-destructive and doom them to a slow and drawn-out death (because they pissed off Kimbery by eating Lintha flesh/losing the War/existing). So it's likely that demons "pollute the purity of their blood" and thus it's horribly taboo. After all, look at how
wrong some neomah-made babes turn out! That taint lurks in others, too. You can't trust those made by such unnatural methods.
