>More Michael:
>>There's one problem with this, though: Dark Season. What right-thinking
>>orlanthi culture would devote lots of rituals to Darkness, Cold and
>>Snow? Also i wonder why orlanthi would celebrate Yelm and the solar
>>stuff?
>
>For the balance of things?
You a closet lunar?
>Because the plants need the rest winter
>brings and the sun and heat summer gives?
The plants sleep during winter because Ernalda lies cold as death in the underworld. If she was awake and well, the plants wouldn't need any rest.
>Winter and darkness in
>order to weed out the weakest animals?
Why _celebrate_ something that threatens to kill you and yours? Sure, tests of manhood and endurance by withstanding the powers of winter could be common, but i sincerely doubt that sane people would _like_ it. Propitiatory rituals to fight winter, sure, but no celebrations.
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