Re: Tides on inland waters in Glorantha?

From: bryan_thx <bethexton_at_QScsyxbOHs9UVfAZY2f72L4ZWFkk96v1o4leb-2rwPqpUqUj0KpHGj6_EWX19SNcyy>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:37:05 -0000

>
> --- samclau wrote:
> >
> > I figured as well that it would be a pretty impressive tunnel when
this
> > was first mentioned, with pretty impressive flows of water. Good
to see
> > the figures though :)
>
> I think the word 'tunnel' may be somewhat misleading here. At least
> according to the old maps, its more accurately a strait that runs
> under the glacier, separating the Fronelan land mass to the south from
> the Altinelan land mass to the north. You can see the eastern end of
> it on the modern maps (just north of Erigia), because that's ice free.
>
Thanks for the clarification!

Also, on the whole water flows thing, I don't think that there is any requirement for water flows, if I understand Gloranthan tides correctly. Does not all the seas go up and down at the exact same time, as the blue moon rises and plummets? So it is clearly not a case of volumes of water moving from one place to another, rather in Glorantha water is mystically compressible.

I think the importance of the 'tunnel' is therefore symbolic/magical/mythical: It connects the White Sea to the rest of the oceans, therefore it is part of that same whole of 'the seas' and therefore is affected like them.

Which also means it should have been affected by the closing? I wonder if that did anything to ice floes?

-Bryan