Interesting. That's not quire my view of Illumination, though I'm sure those clever folks in the Empire can manage it. Still...
I've always thought of Illumination as a fluid, intuitive sort of thing. Riddling all the more so. I could imagine a riddle might not work twice for the same riddler. On the other hand a skilled Illuminate can turn almost anything into a riddle - a canal, f'rinstance.
You see, once an idea is formalised like this, it gets frozen. Institutionalised. It and loses a lot of its power. Are there perhaps degrees of illumination? Nothing that would be apparent in day to day Glorantha. But I'd bet one of those wild riddlers who work with raw undillutrd stuff could run rings around one of those bureaucrats.
Hmm... Maybe scope for a story here.
Nick Fortune nick_at_nymar.demon.co.uk ===========================================================================+++ Sense Of Humour Down For Maintainence +++ Witticism Unavailable +++
End of Glorantha Digest V2 #423
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