>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.
Well that's not boring in our world, so why would it be boring in Glorantha?
There's a disturbing trend towards "one true way" in some recent posts, that one way being "it can only be mythic." Now Glorantha is obviously a mythic world, but part of the charm is that almost everything has multiple explanations. Horrified disintegration/well-deserved death/eaten by wolf/knocked out of the sky dome/great ice age? Take your pick. They're all true.
So feel free to come up with other true explanations for Gloranthan fossils, but IMG they are ancient beasties squashed into rock. Some from underwater. Like at Whitewall. About which there are obviously myths.
-- David Dunham Glorantha/HQ/RQ page: www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html
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