From: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RQ Digest Maintainer) Sender: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RQ Digest Maintainer) Organization: Lankhor Mhy and Associates To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (Daily automated RQ-Digest) Reply-To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RuneQuest Daily) Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Wed, 05 Jan 1994, part 1 Message-ID:Precedence: junk X-RQ-ID: Intro This is the RuneQuest Daily Bulletin, a mailing list on the subjects of Avalon Hill's RPG and Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha. It is sent out once per day in digest format. More details on the RuneQuest Daily and Digest can be found after the last message in this digest. --------------------- From: allan@tcrystal.gla.ac.uk (Allan Henderson) Subject: Manirian Map index Message-ID: <7389.9401041500@sushi.tcrystal.glasgow.ac.uk> Date: 4 Jan 94 15:00:20 GMT X-RQ-ID: 2727 Hi, > malcolm109@aol.com > If anyone is interested in seeing my handy Manirian Map Index I can post > it to the digest. It contains a whopping 466 names! You bet I want to see this, checking place names on a number of maps is a real drag. Perhaps someone should produce a composite map showing the lot for TOTRM. > As I was reading my copy of A Rough Guide to Boldhome in preparation for > Runequest-Con. Sob, weep wail I can't get to the con but if there are any spares left over after the con I would love to buy one. Cheers, Allan Henderson --------------------- From: dybbuk@explorer.clark.net (Michael E. Colton) Subject: Cancellation Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 94 15:07:45 GMT X-RQ-ID: 2728 Please cancell my "subscription to RuneQuest Daily Thank You +-------------------------+------------------------+ | Michael E. Colton | dybbuk@clark.net | +-------------------------+------------------------+ | Yet another Ghost in the machine . . . | +--------------------------------------------------+ --------------------- From: sullivam@mlc.lib.mi.us (Mark Sullivan -- Michigan Library Consortium) Subject: Comments on RQ-Daily Jan 3 and Yara Aranis Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 94 16:55:37 GMT X-RQ-ID: 2729 Pam Carlson recently writes about Divine Magic and Sacrifice in X-RQ-ID: 2710 - > Why would only chaotic or evil deities accept human sacrifice? > Some native Meso-Americans practiced it, and I've never heard > them described as "evil". Depends on who you read. In his book Cannibals and Kings, Marvin Harris quotes from Bernal Diaz's The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 1517-1521 (as well as other sources). The descriptions sound evil to me. The Spanish definitely took the view that the Aztec were evil (and the Aztec's neighbors weren't too keen on the sacrifices either). Now I'll grant you that the Spanish are not an unbiased source, but who is? How many of the chaotic religions in Glorantha describe themselves as evil? It seems like most of these cultures describe evil as something done by those not-of-our-group or those no-longer-part-of-our-group. > I've also read somewhere that some native North Americans > considered it an honor to slay a respected enemy if he was > captured. Sounds a lot like the Cannibal Cult in Prax. > (This may not be true - I'm at the mercy of popular fiction on > this one. Does anyone else know more?) I've read similar things, but it is not my area of expertise. And for the practice in Glorantha of sacrifice see - the Cannibal Cult, the Cult of the Bloody Tusk, or Yelmalio (see Cults of Prax p51 Tale of Biturian Varosh). ---- Re: Manirian map index Malcolm mentions in X-RQ-ID: 2718 > If anyone is interested in seeing this I can post it to the > digest. I am interested! ---- Re: the Cult of Yara Aranis Thanks Paul for the interesting cult write up! Re: Nick Brooke's suggestions on Dragoons - I really liked this idea. A dragoon style cadre of skilled warriors backing up polearm equipped local milita seems a reasonable way for the Redlands farmers to copy with the Pentan nomads. It provides a mobile means of moving the necessary professionals to stiffen the milita without making the Y.A.s just clones of their opponents. It works for me. ==== Mark ---------------------