Osric Essays

This section contains essays contributed by Neville Percy, known by many as Osric.

Reverence and Lore, not Clerisy (Essay)

Fellow GMs of Middle-earth, For the past couple of decades, most fantasy games have effectively conspired to give the impression that any game must always heavily feature the proponents of holy power. Many games have even had characters get wounded so frequently that every band of adventurers had to include a healer-priest in order to survive. But the ‘good’ peoples of Middle-earth have no organised religion and no priest-figures wielding any delegated power of either Ilúvatar: the only true deity; or the Valar: his representatives, “created spirits of high angelic order”, who more closely correspond to the pantheons of gods commonly presented in RPGs.

Únati - The Boundaries of the Possible within Eä

The High Elves of JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth call "únati" those impossibilities that would contravene Eru Ilúvatar's 'laws of nature' by which all beings are constrained – even the mightiest of the Valar, as proven by the vain attempts of the rebel Melkor Morgoth to defy Eru's Will. This is an essay by Neville "Osric" Percy being revised on the wiki setup for the same topic.

Únati -- the Laws of Nature - Email discussion 2008-05-24

An email discussion follow up on Osric's Unati article back in May 24th, 2008.