>Some time ago I saw a detailed map of Sartar and wonder if anybody could throw
>some light on some the locations. They are the Monastery (spelt Monestary on
>the map), the Nunnery (I have feeling this might be a sisters of Mercy temple).
>Both are at the edge of the Aranwyth land's. One other place is the Devils
>Grove which is south of the road to Sewnstown.
The hypothesis about the Sisters of Mercy Temple is confirmed from a map of Sartar in Wyrms Footprints (on the edge of Battle Valley). I can't comment on the other two places as Sartar is my strongest point. Alex?
Joerg Baumgartner:
Takes time out from typesetting the English translation of the Jonstown Companion (out RSN I hope?)
Bryan Maloney had written:
>>Nope, the EWF symbol is an iconic representation of a chain of mountains,
>>with clouds streaming along them.
To which I replied:
>> If that is so why does it appear in the singular form? And why would
>> EWF philosophy be interested in mountains and _clouds_?
Joerg valiantly takes up the cause with the following contibution:
>Because the EWF philosophy is based on the Theyalan culture of central
>Genertela, which is big on mountains (especially one big one in the centre,
>to answer the question after the singular form) and clouds.
The EWF philosophy is based on Orlanthi worship? I thought it was a draconic religion superimposed originally on the many peoples of Dragon Pass. I don't think the Dragonewts have any big thing about mountains. As for the singular form being a reprsentation of Kero Fin as the 'one big one' in the centre, you would do well to refresh your memory of the relevant rune shown in KoS. The middle point of the W is actually smaller than the two 'mountain parts' shown beside it. This cannot be Kero Fin thus depicted. If in any case, the rune is based on Theyalan cultural hangup of Big Mountains then I would suppose the rune to be more common rather than solely assoicated with the EWF.
The reason that I said it was a river is that having looked at the Broken Council Guidebook, I find that the Dragonewts are listed as the Speakers of Water until the reformation of the Inner Circle membership circa 355 ST. Since Dragonewts don't write (and are incapable of drawing pictures), it appears that they pointed to the river as their ancestral dragon. We know that when the rivers invaded the land during the Gods War, they were often called Blue Dragons (Oslir/Nestendos etc). And since the Dragonnewts are related to the ordinary riverine newtlings who do indulge in river worship, the origin of the assoication of Dragonewts with the Water Rune should be obviouys.
>Also note that the mountain ridges were interpreted as the spines (or
>in one extreme case, wings) of sleeping dragons by the EWF. Either this,
>or sleeping giants (like Quivin, the Good/Great/etc Giant chains in the
>eastern Rockwoods).
And so was the River which was going to be the Spine of the Grand Dragon. I think a lot of Draconic hills and Mountains known today were originally inhabited by ordinary mountain spirits before the EWF. The EWF in an attempt to bring about the Grand Dragon (which was really an insane pipe dream IMHO) began draconizing all the local spirits they could find. Thus when the Dragonkill war begins, the True Golden Horde are suprised by all the dragons that appear.
End of Glorantha Digest V2 #7
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