Hill of Gold from Martin Crim on 1996-06-04 (Glorantha Digest Vol 02)

From: Martin Crim <mcrim_at_erols.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 13:08:38 -0400 (EDT)

Peter Metcalfe is "pretty sure [he] saw someone post after the RQ CON Down Under that one of the answers in the RQ auction was that Elmal lost his fire powers to Zorak Zoran at the Hills of Gold."

From the RQ DU Lore Auction transcript:
John: Does Elmal, the Orlanthi sun god, as currently worshiped in Sartar, possess fire powers?

GS: No.

John: How did he lose them?

NB: Who took them?

GS: I _think_ it was Zorak Zoran.

Reading between the lines again?

I said:
>>In my view, this is equivalent to saying "The Elmali do not have a Hill of
>>Gold myth." If an Elmali were able to prove that his god was at the Hill of
>>Gold, *poof* he would become a Yelmalion.

To which Peter Metcalfe opines:
>Why? The Hill of Gold myth was not part of Yelmalio's mythos as he came
>from Fronela after the Dawn with the Elvish Reawakeners.

The hell he did. Yelmalio is an ancient human cult of southern Peloria, with its origins in Vanch. Elves worship Hurril, the Flower Bringer.

Peter, you're wrong about bronze too.

--Martin