Same thing with this sorcery bit; oh yeah, the sorcerers "exploit" the otherworld, they "enslave" their Other Self, they are Bad, of course, because they're borrowed from the Real World's Western ideologies, and you know how fashionable it is to spit on _them_. Sorcery (or wizardry) is working with the forces of nature, to use the possibilities in nature, instead of corrupting man's soul by involvement with horrid non-human spiritual forces.
(Western wizardry view of theistic gods: stop this christian metaphor
about the Devil and pagan frippery a bit and be a little
anachronistic: think of Valind the Windwalker, Xentha The Thing That
Should Not Be, Aldrya The Great Tree Of The Woods With A Thousand
Saplings, etc. Not even mention that blasphemous chaos goddess, The
Crawling Chaos, The Soul And Messenger Of The Outer Gods, The Red
Woman.)
<. But, that
> said, you could find plenty of:
>
> > The apologists of idealistic Loskalm, pragmatic and pious Sehsnela,
> > the chivalrous Castle Coast, the wise Brithni, the mystically
> > insightful Stygians,
That's my point - there are not too many of them around. The
apologists, I mean.
> Just don't expect such folk to be starting the Hero Wars: that's a job for the
> narrow-minded bigots of Loskalm, the power-grasping brutes of Seshnela, the
> lunatic dreamers of the Castle Coast, the sinister Brithini, or the turbulent,
> untrustworthy Stygians. ;-)
You forgot the Vadeli.... the Vadeli are presented as so mind-numbingly evil that
not even Michael Raateroova dared accusing me of being one in his
little letter a month ago, where he included most other cosmopolitan
Gloranthan accusations :-)
Andrew Behan:
> Familiarity breeds contempt.
Probably, yes.
There oughta be more than the Christian root cellar to take from.
Since I only lull around in Dragon Pass, except for a short trip to
Esrolia and the dealings there, there have not been that many
Malkioni around in Real Gaming as opposed to talking on Arachne
Solaras web. Where they have been, I have tried to put in as many
other influences as possible. If the Western Sailors my players met
in Esrolia was a carbon-copy of anything, it was probably Cliche (but
in no way nasty) Moslem as apt to swearing by Malkion's Beard as by
Hrestol's Wounds, as apt to begin stories with "It is said - but only
the Creator is all-knowing " as to making the Sign of the Triangle.
Mixing stolen stuff is no new thing in Glorantha (Orlanthi as
Celts+Vikings+Amerinds) so why not?
I once in a strange fit of misdirected humour tried to rewrite the
"What my Father told me" for the Western Knight by changing all
references of a RW European nature to Indian - talking about
"Rajahs" instead of Lords, "Brahmins" instead of Wizards etc, but
it failed due to my ignorance of Indian matters. But the piece of
prince Hrestol meditating under the fig tree was amusing....
Ah bosh. It is only minor trouble regarding a minor aspect of something that is meant to be done in spare time for fun. What the heck.
Erik the Whyning (I like that appelation!)
End of Glorantha Digest V2 #362
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