(urth) The Land Across Discussion (Spoilers!)

[Matthew King]

On Dec 7, 2013, at 11:03 PM, Christopher Simon <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Two questions to start off:
> 
> Who cut off Butch's head?

Members of the Unholy Way somehow acquired Russ Rathaus's voodoo doll, then used it to torture him.  Butch was one of the police in on the doll trick Russ used to escape.  Thus, he probably had custody of the doll, and the  Unholy Wayites killed him to get it.

Why they chose to announce this to Naala (or was it to Graft-on?) using the Colonel Kurtz method I cannot discern.

> Who is the man in black? Vlad the Impaler's ghost?

Perhaps more of a tutelary spirit?