I love this idea and am taking it. Post EWF and God Learners, there was a "back to basics" movement across much of Glorantha. (Just look at the Rokari in the west) I can see the Orlanthi reacting just like this, in this case.
LC
On 20 Sep 2004 at 22:16, Jane Williams wrote:
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> > Perhaps the "Orlanthi are illiterate" thing is relatively new
> > for *Orlanthi*, too? I mean--Orlanthi had an advanced,
> > imperial civilization not too long ago (the EWF). That didn't
> > work out. Perhaps Orlanthi decided that literacy was one of
> > the bad things of the EWF, and consciously suppressed it?
> > They could convince themselves easily enough that good Orlanthi had
> > *never* been literate, except for Lankhor Mhy, who's a
> > stranger, anyway. (And who clearly isn't all *that* literate,
> > since he never spells his name the same way twice...)
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> Interesting idea. And it (or something like it) happens again in the
> future, from the hints about something called the Illiteracy era in KoS.
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