> Of Erik's Eurmal steals Death from Humakt to give to Orlanth
theory:
(some things deleted)
I sniggered greatly at the
> bit where Eurmal calls Orlanth "darling": a Camp Luvvie aspect of
> the Monomythic Tricker God, anyone? (Perhaps following the example
> of S. Fry, this is a combination of the Fool and Truant aspects.)
I thought someone would ask me what games Eurmal wanted to play with
young Orlanth, who I bet was both handsome and manly.....
By the way, I checked both KoS and the Tales writeup. My version was
not exactly coherent with KoS but close. And the Tales version
explicitly said Orlanth _stole_ Death.
I like the idea that there are different versions to the story.
> Tricksters aren't just people with a wergeld of zilch, which would
> not normally allow them to be killed with impunity, they can, in fact,
> be killed with impunity, unless they have sworn loyalty to some
> Orlanthi type, in which case you now have him to answer to.
Interesting question: Any example of a non-chieftain who does this?
keeps a private Trickster, I mean?
And by the way, thanks for suggestions about Humakti geases etc.
Klaus O Kristianssen:
>
> The universe is a an unbounded sea of chaos. Since chaos is without
> constancy, occasionally bubbles of something else, something totally alien
> to chaos, appears spontaneously. Glorantha is one such. It is likely that
> Glorantha is both unusually large and unusually long lasting, but there is
> no way we can know. There is no way to learn what the outer chaos contains,
> since not even the gods can survive there.
>
Note that unless some "Lawful" place(s) existed within Chaos, Chaos
would be consistent, ie not Chaos....
> II Glorantha is a machine.
>
> This is what the dwarfs believe. What is the purpose of this machine?
The purpose of the machine is to turn all Chaos into Reality, the
opposite of Chaos! It is a self-duplicating machine to constrcut new
universes!
Remember: the mostali are your
> friends, and happiness is mandatory. Ooops! Wrong game.
Not entirely. I have always envisaged Mostalidom as a Orwellian
bureaucracy which is actually loved by the people.... Perhaps Brave
New World is a better paralell (including incubated foetuses).
Erik
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