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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 3237081" data-attributes="member: 8461">They actually go into that in some detail. Apparently the original Olman settlers had some shamanistic animal cults form, and which later became shapeshifters. After the original savage tide, only the jaguar clan survived. After multiple generations, the werejaguars became the rakastas.Unfortunately, the original savage tide had long since turned some of their number into skinwalkers (who'll be covered in more detail in "City of Broken Idols" in issue #145), who warred against their rakasta cousins, and succeeded in wiping them out a few years ago. The issue says that some may survive elsewhere on the Isle, and that it's "certain" that some escaped, but as a nation on the Isle, the rakasta are extinct.The letter in question is from a Christian gamer, who explains that he has no problem whatsoever with the game (since he knows that it is, after all, just a game), but his wife, also a Christian, has trouble with the game's "elements of magic and the supernatural," and that that cover - depicting a handsome, confident, muscular devil - won't make the debate any easier for him. He suggests that maybe it would have been better to put a cover that depicted righteous forces fighting Mephistopheles.The response he gets is a polite rebuke. The staff mentions that posting an iconic villain on the cover is probably good for sales, that previous covers featured quite a few demon lords without any outcry, and perhaps most important of all, catering to reactionaries who don't even play the game accomplishes nothing, and offends the people who do.</blockquote>

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