Tim Ellis wrote:
>
> >
> > The Justice Stick is probably the same as the one Orlanth retrieved
> > from the Sky in the "Orlanth the Justice Bringer" myth in KoS p74.
> >
>
> Thanks - I had forgotten this one - without re-reading it it
> certainly sounds reasonable.
>
> [how is Elmal known to the fire tribe]
> > I'd call him a traitor, wouldn't you?
> >
> Yes, or Turncoat or other words indicating much the same thing -
> maybe they got given White Feathers of Vrimak....
Traitor, yeah. Or turncoat. They probably have a tragic myth abou thow Elmal beat up his brothers when they went to reason with him...
> Do the Solar worshippers still consider him in this way, or is he the
> god who threw away his solar heritage to save the barbarians (not
> necessarily a traitor, just strange...) - I'm thinking here of
> Conscientious objectors who turn out to be heroes (You can tell which
> War Comics I read as a kid, can't you).
>
> What I was wondering was whether Elmal was worshipped/reviled by
> solar cultures, or identified with another figure by them...
>
He's probably considered Fallen and Polluted. Or they could consider him some sortof envangelical deity, who is purifying the dirty stickpickers up enough so they can *maybe* become Yelmalions in their next life. They probably regard him as a wrong-worship of Yelmalio.
But I'd doubt it... =) Them solars still have a thing for Rebellus Termnius and all his buddies. A solar who left teh Court to join him would be probably anathema. Which probably explains the venom with which Ironfist pursues the few Elmali in his lands.
Jeff
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