The Sky at Night from SimonPhipp_at_aol.com on 1996-06-24 (Glorantha Digest Vol 02)

From: SimonPhipp_at_aol.com
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 18:19:20 -0400

>1) Should the darkness of night represent merely the absence of Yelm's
>light as in the RW, or (as I would imagine *should* be the case) is there
>a tangible presence of Darkness involved?

Night Darkness is Xentha - a goddess of night. Her body covers the sky dome in the same way that Lorion's body covers the sky dome during the day (which is why the sky is blue and not golden).

> 2) If there is, *how* is it involved? How does it interact with Air,
> the Sky Dome, etc.

I should think that she covers the outside of the skydome all the while, but I am not sure. In any case, the stars have made holes in the sky dome, so she cannot be a single dome in her own right.

Question - does it really matter? Xentha is the goddess of Sky Night, that is why the sky is dark at night. Anything more is not really worth knowing.

> Yelm chases Darkness out of Hell at night and
> chases it back to Hell in the morning, but is there any more to it than
that?

I'm not sure about this. Yelm no more chases Xentha out of Hell than Orlanth leads him out each day. Under the terms of the Compromise (objective fact :-) ) YTelm rules the day and Xentha rules the night.