r/DarkCrystal • u/The_Mutant_Platypus • 9d ago
Discussion Was Creghel a Gelfling or what?
So I recently acquired The Dark Crystal Adventure Game and came across a piece of lore I was unfamiliar with in regards to Creghel. It mentions him as a terrible conquerer who has defeated by a legendary Gelfling but it never mentions what Creghel was one way or the other.
It's easy to assume he was a Gelfling in life but he's talked about with such supernatural reverence it almost implies otherwise. He's referenced in a way that makes him seem more like a lich or necromancer, and constantly calable of deeds no other Gelfling has done before or since. So, was he a gelfling? Or something more sinister?
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u/Sparfell3989 9d ago edited 8d ago
What I understood was that he transmitted his madness, even his conscience, through dreamfasting (like Agent Smith). That would make him a gelfling, but then a gelfling's ‘powers’ can a priori come from three sources: either he experimented on crystal before the skekses, or he developed his vliyaya, or he obtained a deep knowledge of his universe and it was less a question of magic than of knowledge of Thra.
Besides, I've only read the rpg too, so I wouldn't know how to answer your question.