> Mikko asks:
>
> > Do the liturgists and wizards of the Malkioni have effective spells
> > to detect and counter chaos?
>
> Yes, but it's a specialist field. Most Malkioni don't encounter Chaos too
> often. Most Malkioni communities don't need permanent wards and guards
> against it, in the same way Orlanthi and Praxians need their Uroxi.
So does chaos manifest to them like it does to the Yelmites? As social and moral corruption, rather than as atrocities.
Or parhaps in the west, it manifests as breakdown of logic and virtue (not that different from above) and soul destroying memetic entities in the magic planes that can escape into the mundane world. Truly alien and insane creatures of magic, ranging from the irritating and strange to the apocalyptically destructive.
> > Do they have dragons in the west (for the knights to fight, obviously),
>
> Yes (though more often in the past), but even dream dragons are v. rare.
That's what I tought. Parhaps they are almost exlucively creatures of the deeper magical planes, unlike in central Genertela. (Dragon Pass seems to be a big draconic node, the center of their power in the world)
> > are they a force of The Enemy, or just monsters of nature and magic?
>
> The latter. Consider the close relationship between Waertagi and Sea
> Dragons.
Ah, that's true. How is that these days, btw? I remember it said that the Waertagi captured and killed Seadragons, and made their ships from their hollowed out bodies. Doesn't sound that symbiotic to me.
But parhaps this has been reworked?
> > Actually, does one encounter dragons in the Adept/Saint planes?
>
> Surely, one could! Just as one might encounter them anywhere else in
> Glorantha.
They certainly seem more like creatures of pure magic in the West. Parhaps the occasional dreamdragon escapes from a sorcerers portal, or is released on a knights heroquest.
> Cheers, Nick
What a fascinating subject!
-Adept
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