Re: bird's eye view

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From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_yeats.ucc.ie>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:56:55 GMT

Steve Lieb says, in defence of "too good" maps:
> Of course, it may have to do with the fact that not many bronze age =
folks
> had the ability to fly, either. ;)

Not _that_ many people in Glorantha have that ability, either, and I don't think one can fly arbitrarily high, either. Indeed, surely the best flyers are the Orlanthi, and on the evidence of the samples that started this thread, they have about the worst maps?

> In Glorantha, any large scale merchant, ruler, or scholarly =
institution
> worth its salt would have a basically perfect map of at least their =
area,
> if not the world.

I think this assumption is Boring and Uncool, for reasons similar to the objections raised to the idea of perfect, multiple-compass navigation. Glorantha with Lozengal Positioning Satellites (dwarf ones aside) is getting too far away from the idea of "ancient world as it really _should_ have been" and into "cod fantasy".

Sl=E1n,
Alex.