> Jane
>
> >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?
OK, tastes differ, and I'm obviously still suffering trauma from studying geology as part of my degree (for certain values of "studying").
> 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.
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.
There certainly are!
http://www.runegate.org/whitewall/wiki/Whitewall%20Rocks
And when Helamakt's magic was weakened, didn't we have them coming back to life - er, undeath? Bat above, rising water and undead sea monsters below... well, we needed something for the PCs who aren't attacking the Bat to do, didn't we?
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