Bo Rosén wrote:
>
> tor 2002-02-21 klockan 19.58 skrev Michael Schwartz:
>
> > Balanced clans ran away to preserve their lives, and gain the wyter
> > blessing Skate Marvels.
>
> Skates?
> Horrible visions of Holiday Glorantha on Ice and a travelling Skovari
> band performing on the frozen mountain lochs spring to mind,
> re-enacting
> Orlanth's triumphs over the Evil Emperor.
> Colourful costumes and impressive sets for the Emperor's Palace and
> Orlanth's camp.
Skates WILL be important in Orlanth is dead. They do use them in Dark Season to get around.
> But skates seem less likely to me for heortlings than skis. What would
> they skate on, no large lakes that I'm aware of between Skyfall and
> Coralinthor Bay, and I don't think the Engizi freezes over. Am I
> missing
> something?
MANY streams and rivers freeze. But I think snowshoes are probably more likely - the terrain is more forested and hilly than traditional nordic skiing.
But then, I'm a snowshoeboy from way back - its a Cultural Thing. =)
> You get alot of snow though and with skis we can have a nod to Swedish
> King Gustav Vasa (remembered every year in the large Cross Country
> Race
> "Vasaloppet") escaping the forces of the Evil Danes in the early
> 1500s.
> Elected King by patriotic Swedes he had to escape on skis, hid in a
> barn, wore a rough cloak above his gold-stiched shirt etc etc.
> Heroic stuff suitable for an Argrath.
>
> Cheers,
> Bo
GOod points. I'd say 'both!' depending on where the heorling lives.
Jeff
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