Relations of Lankst to their neighbours

From: Tschinke <Ingo>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 15:43:00 +0100


Mark Davidson:
>Does anyone have any ideas on how the Orlanthi in Lankst relate with
>their neighbours. They have the Telmori and Dragonewts to their East, the
>Henotheist Safelsterians to the South, the Trolls of Guhan to the South
>West, and the Elves of the Ballid forrest to the West. Also the only pass
>to Fronela is to the North.
>I'm particularly curious about the relations between full pantheon
>worshipping Orlanthi and Henotheist Church Orlanthi.

I think the relations of the Orlanthis of Lankst towards their neighbours are totally different compared to the realtions of the Orlanthis of Sartar or Heortland towards theirs.
IMO the relationship to the old races and the telmori are very cool. They are enemies of old. The Orlanthis of Lankst living in their country on a land which seems to me to be like an island. They are surrounded by enemies which are raiding their lands if they wish to do this. I think there will be no trade with the Telmori, the Dragonewts, the elves or the trolls which could be able to bring this very different people of northern Ralios together. Trade can help by any kind of communication, but IMO there will be not trade or communication between this people. This may or will be different to the people of Otkorion and other people from the south, because the will need the Orlanthi land of Lankst at least as a transfer state to reach the highlama pass. And the people of the civilized safelster region will produce things, tools or goods which will be of some interest for the Orlanthi of Lankst. They could be able to live beside each other if there was not struggle upon religious matters. I think the leader of the Orlanthi of Lankst or the Jofrain confederation are very conserative Orlanthi. In Glorantha - Crucible of the hero wars - you can read that the Orlanthi, or especially Garundyer will form up a iron lightbringer circle. IMO he tries to do this in defence of the new influence of the henotheistic church of Otkorion. The faith into Orlanth was never spread through missionaries as the henotheistic will do this. This a good sign for me of the difference of the Orlanth worship of the conserative Orlanthi and the henotheistic ones. Kocholong or Gardundyer will be able to see that Surantyr the Non-heretic will increase his power through the increase of worshipers of his henotheistic church of Otkorion. So, Surantyr will try to convert as much Orlanthi as he can manage. After the 7 ecclesiastical council he is able to promise the new converted worshipers they will be accepted as full malkioni worshipers in the west, nobody will say they are still babarians (pagans). In fact this will be not be absolutly true because no Rokari or Hrestoli will do this, but in the mixed religious region of civilized Safelster it could be true. This religious struggle is part of the LARP 'Rise of Ralios' I am still writing on. So I have a lot of ideas what will or has happened to the different parties of the northern part of Ralios, but I do not want to say to much about this, because I will wait if the peolpe who will get characters of the people of Lankst will find a solution for their problems. These characters of Lankst will be given to the brits in the LARP 'Rise of Ralios'. So, Mark if you want to make the experience by your own upon the people of Lankst come to Castle Stahleck on Whitsun (24 - 27.05.1996).

Cheers

Ingo Tschinke


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