[On Arkat]
PM>> Was he? I thought he was fighting Nysalor. I don't recall any
>> chaos in Nysalor's Empire until Arkat shows up.
> I suppose you're going to say that all the chaos in Ralios doesn't
>count? The Vampire-Kings of Tanisor?
I refer you to the Notes from Nochet (#8, I think) which quotes a scholar as saying the Kings of Tanisor turned to Vampirism and Gbaji to attempt to ward off Arkat. Of course he might be talking a load of Bollocks...
> Please remember that Arkat went Uz, and eventually Zorak-Zoran in
>order to gain the greater anti-chaos abilities of Darkness.
Arkat went to Zorak Zoran first before turning Uz. As for the Chaosfighting abilities, IMO the Bright Empire resorted *to* Chaos in a desperate attempt to stop him (much like using nukes). Although a tactic which exposed their moral bankruptcy, this does not mean that the Empire of Light was intrinsically chaotic.
Martin Crim:
>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."
>[snipped transcripted auction dialogue which proves that the Hills of
>Gold was not mentioned in the conext of Elmal losing his fire powers]
>Reading between the lines again?
No. I wasn't at the CON. I said above I was sure some-one posted on the *digest* that Elmal lost his fire powers to ZZ at the Hills of Gold. Perhaps I should pass on your ire to D. Cake (who was at the CON and so presumably is the source of this loathsome excreable interpolation)?
Me>>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.
According to the Broken Council Guidebook, *Elmal(us)* is the ancient human cult of South Peloria. Hurril is something you made up and wrote about in Codex #3. Yelmalio is said in Genertela Book to have made his last stand at Winterwood and this is confirmed by the Broken Council Guidebook. OTOH In _your_ glorantha, it is as you say it is.
>Peter, you're wrong about bronze too.
Care to explain *why*? Of course, if you can't do so without sounding "angry", it *might* be better to let the whole matter rest on your final word pronounced from astride your high horse.
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