At 11:45 AM 1/16/2001 -0800, The Glorantha Digest wrote:
>> In the LE by contrast, there is no powerful central core to the Lunar
>> empire to encourage consistancy, but merely the factionalism of
>> territorial armies.
The core is provided by the Emperor and other divine centers of power, all
coordinated by a central staff of demigods on the moon.
>In the end, if you are looking for a single real world analogy for the
>Lunars, there isn't one.
This is a key to all the discssions.
Also, please understand that Persia is a much better model of the Lunar
Empire than Rome.
>Personally, I've never been that
>convinced by the Soviet analogy
Everyone can do all of Glorantha a lot of good to rid it of this fallacious
analogy.
The soviet model is entirely inappropriate.
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