- In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, Jane Williams
<janewilliams20_at_...> wrote:
>
>
> --- Jeff <jakyer_at_...> wrote:
> > Unless, of course, ground up and ingested fossils
> > affect
> > reproduction. I think it will in my Glorantha...
>
> Erm.... OK, let's look at the idea. I wasn't aware
> that Glorantha even had fossils, but obviously it
> does, if only because fossils are Cool. It seems very
> unlikely that they're the remains of beasties that
> died a very long time ago and got buried/squashed in
> mud, later arising as sedimentary rock. Boring. So
> where did they come from, what are they, and so on?
>
I will point out that fossils are referred to on numerous occasions
in the literature. Off the top of my head, they are mentioned in
Apple Lane's Rainbow Mounds, Snake Pipe Hollow, HeroQuest's "Fish
Rain" scenario, and in Storm Tribe when talking about the reclaimed
lands that once were part of the sea. Several of the troll books
refer to them as well, I believe.
They are, of course, found in places where the Sea once ruled and
were turned to stone by the powers of Earth and Storm that dried up
the seas.
Jeff