Re: Dawn Age Waertagi motivations

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_Z8T0_n0gv95Q-KRJK66lsSCCY13FCfihuc5RnKyzmhlOCnisn_bkkgl1oscKh7MZfLm>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:25:09 +1300

arun wrote:
> I'm trying to understand what motivated the Waertagi to move humans
> around the lozenge and plant them in other parts of Glorantha - the
> Slontans and Seshnegi moved to Jrustela, the Brithini exiles to
> Fronela and Seshnela.

I really think the Waertagi were trying to create a Sea of Logic to replace the Land of Logic that had been destroyed in the Great Darkness. Their seemingly irrational shifting of Logical populations had a higher purpose in creating coherent flows of reason that would tame the unstable seas.

Many of their expeditions were aimed at repeating the creation and development of the land of logic (the settlement of Jrustela reflected the early contact with the Mostali), the war with Vithela was a repetition of an ancient myth in which Zzabur invented boiled duck and so on.

--Peter Metcalfe