> From: Lightcastle <light_castle_at_...>
asked
> During the Windstop, only
> the Ernaldans who view Ernalda as the wife of Orlanth lost their magic,
> right?
> From: "Jeff Richard" <richaje_at_...>
replies
> Not necessarily. I think that Great Ernalda was affected by the
> Windstop - including in Esrolia (check out OiD p 45).
and he replied correctl;y.
Whereupon
> From: "Jane Williams" <janewilliams20_at_...>
incorrectly rpelies
> I believe this to be the case - IMG I insist on it being the case, because
> I'm not having gaming in the rest of the world messed up by one scenario.
and raises the further question:
> Quite why Ernalda's magic should go when it was Orlanth who was Dead, not
> her, is still beyond me, though, even in Sartar. Her magic doesn't derive
> from his.
to which I respond:
Because she was "killed" as well.
But as the title of a book, *Orlanth and Erlnalda are Dead* just doesn't ring
properly.
And, to head off the obvious question: "How? Since Ernalda's center of cult
worship is not in Whitewall?"
I reply:
Orlanth and Ernalda are a single religion, one dependant upon the other.
and
One of Ernalda's roles is the Grieving Lover.
and
the key wasn't JUST to lay Orlanth low, but to bring about the winter
(yes, the
Lunars expected that to occur). Since things in myth are not as nicely Cause &
Effect as rationalists would like, you can consider the event to have been to
make the Great Winter, whose consequences include the death of all those
entities and their powers.
Becasue, as you may or may not know, it was not the taking of Whitewall that killed Orlanth. Many other ceremonies and events were going onas well, to acheive the desired effect.
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