Why do you think trickster spyrits (like The Cyotee or Puck) take on that role? Why do they change thier apearance and try to seem normal and play 'tricks' on mortals?
Funny you should ask that. Coyote and the Kitsune of Japan are trickster spirits, and they play tricks to teach lessons. Usually, they target those people who are too full of themselves, and help take such people down a peg or two, or perhaps someone has not been paying proper respect to the spirits, and need to be reminded that the world does not revolve around them.
Sometimes, it is to help teach, to guide someone from the path they were taking and onto a proper path to enlightenment, or towards their destiny. Sometimes it is to punish those who have done wrong.
Basically... it is to teach.
(By the way, L5R this Saturday, starting near 2pm. Hope you can make it.)
*nodnods* Why do you thikn they choose to play tricks and hide thier true form instead of being more forward about it? 2pm? *writes it down* okay I will be there sorry I wassnt there last time I was having one of those depressed hiding from the world days.
Because it is in the nature of a trickster to... well, trick. And by simply telling someone what they are doing wrong, a trickster is not teaching. By actually performing tricks, by making a fool of the target, the lesson is learned not only by them, but by anyone who hears of it.
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Coyote and the Kitsune of Japan are trickster spirits, and they play tricks to teach lessons. Usually, they target those people who are too full of themselves, and help take such people down a peg or two, or perhaps someone has not been paying proper respect to the spirits, and need to be reminded that the world does not revolve around them.
Sometimes, it is to help teach, to guide someone from the path they were taking and onto a proper path to enlightenment, or towards their destiny. Sometimes it is to punish those who have done wrong.
Basically... it is to teach.
(By the way, L5R this Saturday, starting near 2pm. Hope you can make it.)
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Why do you thikn they choose to play tricks and hide thier true form instead of being more forward about it?
2pm? *writes it down*
okay I will be there sorry I wassnt there last time I was having one of those depressed hiding from the world days.
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