Guy Hoyle
Dear Guy,
Just catching up on some way-too-old correspondence. You can post this from me if you want.
At 08:31 AM 8/11/2000 -0500, guy hoyle wrote:
>|From: "Peter Metcalfe" <metcalph_at_...>
>|Subject: Caladran Presidents
>|
>|Mikko Rintasaari
>|>(Still not going to
>|>use any sheriffs, any more than presidents of Caladraland)
>|
>|There are no presidents of Caladraland AFAIK. The notorious
>|Runequest Companion reference was contradicted by the Dragon's
>|Past #1 in Different Worlds #28, that can be seen at:
>|
>|http://www.glorantha.com/library/eurmal/campaign-gmc.html
>|
>|making it probably the first and only example of an RQ2 greg.
>
>IIRC, the RQ Companion's sections on Caladraland and God Forgot were
>switched inadvertantly. I don't recall where I read this; it's possibly
>something I learned from Sandy, but I think I actually read it somewhere. I
This is false.
The sections are not switched.
If you read it someplace, the source was dead wrong.
If you mean that the term President ought to have been used for God
Forgot,
well, they are ruled by a Talar-- no elections please!
>like the current description of Caladraland because we really needed a
>Mayan/Aztec analogue in Glorantha, with a little bit of Hollywoodized
>southsea-island-volcano-worshipping thrown in ;-)
This is also dead wrong.
There is no Maya/Aztec analog.
I've actually never added anything to Glorantha because anyone "really
needed" it.
Oh OK, except for if I needed it.
But to be clear, Caladraland is not Mayan or Aztecish for me.
Oh finally, Caladraland's climate is actually more a result of the warm Sedlazam/Rozgali current than the interior heat of the volcanoes.
Oh, for president and pharaoh: both are rather arbitrary terms that I
used
and more or less regret using now. Of course both actually have
Gloranthan
words, not English translations that are inadequate and misleading. The
Egyptian connotations for pharaoh have given Kethaela an Egyptian cast
that
I never intended.
Sheriff, on the other hand, of course means shire reeve, not the cowboy error that someone seems to be making.
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