Re: Opposing runes and the circle of elements - Lodril

From: John Machin <orichalka_at_ct15ji5x9pNuo9oMuXYkCVoobzLKVOViRvSIDYbVtmpgh0pys5GlwG-H4I-HArPqFH>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 11:19:06 +1000

2009/8/2 ttrotsky2 <TTrotsky_at_AfOcOP2Ni4f2PLjJFlaTR8cs9wqAk232UbZ3JB0Cf0e2XixH9TO0Lc8T-n7s5fZ-o4wAGIOlV8xAkgmYyTXhCsg.yahoo.invalid>
> I can't see any "of course" in there. It seems to me obvious that it should be t'other way about, if anything. If Barntar isn't an Earth
> god (albeit the only male one in the pantheon, IIRC) the system is a bit broken somewhere. I can already hear the sound of
> someone vigorously hammering a square peg into a round hole...

More like a sort of spiral-shaped hole I should think.

It does seem a bit odd that Barntar the farmer, son of Orlanth the Storm, is an "Air god" and could not posibly be an "Earth god"; whereas Lodril also a farmer (sometimes), son of Aether, as an "Earth god" and could not possible be a "Fire God".

It seems that, regardless of your opinions on the new taxonomical standard, it is being unevenly applied in at least these two cases.

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John Machin
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