>Firstly, the question of whether or not Sartar is a Better Place after
>the Lunar conquest is irrelevant. The Lunars *did* conquer Sartar, and
>the locals just had to learn to live with it. Or join the debacle
>known as Starbrow's Rebellion. Later, of course, the deux ex machina
>known as Argrath saves the cause of the Orlanthi in Sartar.
It is not is irrelevant as lot of the stuff that has appeared here, like wether or not the SUn is female. When did the Sartari live with it. The spark of freedom just moved to Whitewall.
>Secondly, IMO the Lunars did not want to conquer Sartar per se. What
>they wanted was to secure the way to the riches of the Holy Country
>and (to a lesser extent) to the magical resources of Pavis and Prax.
>Conquering Sartar was just a necessary precondition of doing this.
Which puts Lunar apologist on even shaker ground. It seems to me that those pushing the destruction of the Monomyth are also pushing the Red Goddess as the true and proper religion of Glorantha. Is there a double standard here.
Better Dead than Red.
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