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Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Mon, 20 Dec 1993, part 1
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From: akuma@netcom.com (Steven E Barnes)
Subject: Blue Lunes
Message-ID: <199312181102.DAA27479@mail.netcom.com>
Date: 17 Dec 93 19:02:53 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 2683
These are described in Troll Gods (cults book), page 11.
They are called Selenes, and their power is to automatically
drain 1 magic point per round from those engulfed by it.
-steve
And they are invisible too...
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From: sandyp@idcube.idsoftware.com (Sandy Petersen)
Subject: re: RQ Dailyi
Message-ID: <9312181649.AA10478@idcube.idsoftware.com>
Date: 18 Dec 93 04:49:11 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 2684
I said:
>[Umath's sons] are traditionally five in number: Umbrol, Vadrus,
>Storm Bull, Humakt, and Orlanth.
Brandon Brylawski points out:
>I bow to your knowledge in this instance. What happened to Kolat?
Oops. I meant Kolat, not Umbrol. Mea maxima culpa. Umbrol is a
descendent of Kolat. (That "son of" stuff is a real pain.)
You said you used a Gagarth and Valind item to contact Umath on a
heroquest. It makes sense that one of Vadrus's descendents would do
the trick, if you needed something from each of Umath's kids.
Joerg Baumgartner says:
>I understood that Sog was a favorite deity of the Waertagi.
Nick Brooke comments on this, too. I surrender. Sog is Waertagi, not
God Learner. But the origin of the god and the name of the ruins are
still the same. And it was still a God Learner port. So there.
>But then in 945 or so, less than 8 years before the Closing, the
>Waertagi released Sog (or his father Tidal Wave?) on Jrustela and
>sank most of it.
Or more probably Sog's uncle, Island Gulper. No?
>Which part of Kethaela had this Sog City?
I think it was in the Seaward arm, in the "ocean" section of
Kethaela.
Nick Brooke says: (re: statements that Ragnaglar is not an actual son
of Umath)
>On the other hand, Ragnaglar is also described as Storm Bull's
>*brother*.
There are lots of peoples in the world in which the sons of your
father's brother are also your brothers. Arachne Solara only knows
what the kinship routines of the Theyalans were like before the Dawn.
Because the nice neat five-fold nature of Umath's sons, I prefer
Ragnaglar as a nephew or cousin to Storm Bull. Perhaps the
relationship is unclear because of muddled kinship relations. Maybe
Ragnaglar is the son of Storm Bull's mother, fathered by Vadrus? That
would make him both a nephew and a brother. I'll have to think how it
could be further muddled into being a cousin as well.
Rich Staats says:
>Is illumination truly a way of integrating Chaos into the natural
>order of Glorantha or is it just some "cheaty" Chaos trick?
Only Lunar propagandists who actually believe that they are lying say
that Illumination "cleanses" chaos (they do this in an attempt to
fool Storm Bulls). Most all philosophers, Lunar included, agree that
Illumination is a facet of Chaos, though possibly benign. That
"possibly benign" is, of course what the Hero Wars are being fought
over.
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