markmohrfield_at_... wrote:
> --- In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, Jane Williams
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
>
> According to the Lhankor Mhy scholar in Snakepipe Hollow they are
> actually living creatures that move through the rock at a very, very
> slow rate.
There was also one of the Mostali heretics who was said so be so pious that his bones turned to stone, which suggests that petrification is a sign that the world machine is almost fully repaired. No doubt before many more workcycles are completed all creatures will have stone bones.