Magic/mythic geography from Nils Weinander on 1998-03-20 (Glorantha Digest Vol 05)

From: Nils Weinander <nilsw_at_ibm.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 08:03:17 +0100

Jonathan Coxhead:
>
> >One of the strange things about the large-scale maps of Glorantha is
> >that they show little evidence of divine activity. At smaller scales, one
> >of the fascinating things about Gloranthan cartography is the history
> >manifested in the landscape: the Paps and Agape, the Good Canal, the Block,
> >the circular Glowline around Tarsh, Dragonewt Roads and so on. There's not
> >much of this at the level of the Lozenge as a whole (Magasta's Pool and the
> >Gates of Dawn and Dusk are exceptions). Why not?

Peter:
>
> Mainly because most of glorantha has not been detailed on that level.
> But it is common. For example, Peloria has the Footstool on which
> Yelm became Emperor, the City in which the Red Goddess was born and
> so forth.

A couple of examples from the East Isles:

The entire island of Mokato is actually the ruin of the godtime palace of the Golden Emperor, ruler of Vithela. It is called the Jewelled Isle because of the gleaming spires which still point toward the sky.

Yoptitpoea is the nest of the Doom Phoenix.

Rombotonga is a minor reflection of the shattering of Vithela in that its high plateau was shattered into seven parts when Rombotonga's god Larasitramo was smashed to pieces during the Nightmare. Now the people of each part worship the piece of his body which fell there (head, left arm etc).

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