In my headcanon I explained this as Irenicus needing to drain energy levels, a la an undead, to power the release and transfer of the Bhaalspawn's soul. Going after the shadow thieves meant there wer… (View Post)

Tank was used outside of the military shortly after the vehicle was introduced in WWI; I remember HL Mencken using it in an essay he wrote in the 1920s to describe Theodore Dreiser's novels effects o… (View Post)

@skatan Sorry, I wasn't clear. Mencken used the word to describe the effect that Dreiser's novels had on other writing. He was a great force, imperturbable, immune to the usual criticisms, etc, and s… (View Post)

And no clerics; the Norse had no priests as we would understand them. Ceremonies were performed by jarls or the goði, if there were no jarls (as in Iceland). (View Post)

As a developer for over 25 years, I can say that deletion can be a perfectly valid way to improve code. (View Post)