> Question for Them Wot Know: who is it who calls them > "hsunchen", anyway?
::The survivors are today called 'hsunchen,' a Kralori
::term that was spread by the God Learners in the
::Imperial Age. Those intrepid explorers discovered
::that the scattered and weak primitives of their West
::carried on traditions similar to those of the eastern
::tribes that dominated the Shanshan Mountains of
::Kralorela. They transported wise men back and forth
::across the continent to observe their interactions,
::and in this way united some tribes that had long
::been lost from each other. Consequently, traditions
::are even more similar across the continent now than
::they were at the Dawn.
http://www.glorantha.com/library/hsunchen.html
As for the derivation of the word, the Shanshan mountains are actually four separate mountain ranges - IIRC three of them are Hso Shan, the Hsa Shan and the Ti Shan. I'll think that Hsunchen means something like "folk of the beast (Hsun) mountains (Shan)" but other etmytologies are possible.
--Peter Metcalfe
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