Re: Re: Godlearners

From: Henrix <henrix_at_...>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 01:58:24 +0100


At 22:26 2000-12-07, Peter Metcalfe wrote:
>Erik
> >Were they really contemporaneous?
>
>Yup. EWF 578 ST - 1043 ST. God Learners 768 ST - 1049 ST.

> >What were the relationships?
>
>The God Learners tried to take over Esrolia in 842 ST and failed.
>It's one of the "mixed degrees of success" of the God Learner Empire
>described in the Glorantha: Intro p48. Otherwise the Kingdom of
>Night was a buffer region between them (sort of like how Germany
>was a buffer during the Cold War). There also was some other
>contact in Ralios, but the specifics of that was obscure

But let us not forget that even though the GodLearner/Jrusteli/Middle Sea Empire did not arise until 768, their philosophical school existed well before that. It was a GodLearner school in Nochet that first taught the secret of Dragon speech, which they had wrested from the cult of Drolgard.

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Henrix

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