> ...Luatha. These are Big Mean Ugly Crimson Critters....
> ...become aware of a crimson glow in the distance...
Excuse me? Weren't the Luatha described as being violet in Elder Secrets? In any event, stay away from them. The twenty of them in Glorantha slew the land goddess Seshna, sinking much of the land beneath the waves. 'Dese guys be ugly!
Argrath_at_aol.com:
> ... (OTOH, joining Orlanth Rex or Moonson
> IS exactly like joining the Episcopalians for social advancement. Thus,
> one finds more people in high-ranking cults who lack, shall we say, true
> zeal.)
Not necessarily. In any Orlanthi 'royal' family (or perhaps even that of a clan chief), if a particular child seems to have talents and gifts that point him out as the probable heir; then he is going to be brought up in a 'royal' fashion, and this would include initation into Orlanth Rex. After all, isn't that the best way to insure he learns what he needs to know, to rule well?
Mike Cule:
> The idea of using Gnomes as a sort of underground submarine...
I saw this done once, when a character who was a 'dwarf-friend' needed to get about a week's ride away by dusk... The dwarves had him strip naked & and grease himself with some sort of ointment. Then they sealed him and his personal goods in a large, cigar-tube shaped metal shell. Then a huge Gnome took him underground.... Despite the pre-applied burn ointment, the guy came out lokking like a lobster, and was barely able to sit a horse; but he did manage to get where he was going....
Sandy & I disagree on the KoW:
S: The KoW is significant not only because it incubates the seed of the Hero Wars (all this IMO), but because it is magically important -- Gloranthan politics and Earthly politics overlap a great deal, but there is an entire Otherworld sitting out there to be taken into account. Near the end of the Empire of the Wyrm's Friends, the EWF took apparently highly irrational actions. But in fact, these actions made sense once you realized what they were trying to accomplish.
A> What is more, Sandy repeatedly states that the forces shown in the A> DP game are the vast majority of the Lunar Empire's professional A> army. Where is ther a connection between Fronela & Dragon Pass? Where does Dragon Pass come into this? The Hero Wars arespread across the entire cosmos, from the East Isles and Kralorela to Umathela and the Nargan. Dragon Pass, IMO, isn't even the most important site of the war, nor its outcome the most decisive.
Um, Sandy, would you mind answering the main question? I repeat: "Where is there a connection between Fronela & Dragon Pass?" The European simile may not be totaly accurate, but in WWI, one thing led to another, which led to another..... Who cares if it was inevitable or not? How does the KoW fighting Loskalm, Jonatela & probably a huge horde of elves lead to: a dragon devouring a Temple of the Reaching Moon in Sartar (with Lunar hoplties for croutons); five reincarnations of Arkat, all of whom turn up in Ralios for some strange reason; an invasion of Keathela (SP?) from Maniria, the White Moon pacifists in Peloria; etc, etc. Please elucidate.
David Cheng talks of Nessilina, Queen of the Kiss. Sounds to me a lot like the story of Bina Bang, Ulerian-style.
Andrew
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