Re: Runes of the Oronin Valley

From: Kevin McDonald <kpmcdona_at_PoEXzmJc5qXwNnXsiR563CL2T24a69wmv0NxtCzZ3FwAjOVqPMczy5GYCcDPjesSWWY>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:55:22 -0400


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:46 PM, David Dunham<david_at_mHTRlwjrlqpTNCQuVNrY2iCPV4wbpqK-r-wSAS8rK58iP-r2cz6wZ-ZS7oOH_iji32zJw6TfrQ.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
>
> Kevin
>
>>Dendara is also said to be the source of the Spolite Gloom, "Indeed,
>>Dendara had summoned clouds to protect the people from the overbearing
>>rays of Yelm, and the land was cast in shadow."
>
> On the bus so I'm not cracking the books, but this is a historical
> event, and so I read it a an action of the priestesses of Dendara,
> not Dendara herself.

Agreed.

> Sounds like they are importing foreigners in
> some fashion (Orlanthi mercenaries?) because of social repression
> from the Yelmic nobility.

Maybe, but Entekos/Dendara *is* a weather related goddess so it never seemed odd to me that she could be called upon to do this - at least not until this conversation.

-Kevin McD            

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