Its pretty futile to try and compile ALL of it. As Peter has pointed out, the best sources currently available are the Genertela book and the Lunar history articles (available in old Wyrms footnotes and Heroes magazines only).
The Pelorian Prosopaedia is a useful compilation of most of the important deities of Peloria, including most of the major Lunar ones. I have just stuck up a latest version of it, though the changes are very minor. There are also a few less generally useful sources on my web page, mostly for those going through the Solar myth sources(which I would recommend at least a passing familiarity with for a Lunar campaign).
I would like to get the Prosopaedia project actually temporarily finished (in a state where I can freeze it pending a new source of Lunar info). Accordingly, I invite the help of the digest in resolving a few outstanding issues, some of which are editorial, and some of which relate to comments on earlier drafts. Please, I welcome your feedback on the following questions -
Do modern Pelorians acknowledge the 'classic' (ie God Learnerish) Celestial Court, or only the one from GRoY?
Are the Lowfires known in Peloria (Oakfed, Gustbran, Mahome)? I personally tend slightly towards them being yet another thing that comes from Saird, but I have also heard that Gustbran is originally Manirian and Oakfed Praxian. I would appreciate a few opinions.
Should I take the bit about Yelorna out? The bit about her being worshipped in Jarst is speculation from my game. She has been otherwise described as originating in Ralios and Prax.
Can anyone nominate anything that is missing?
And I am still unsatisfied with the writeups of a few important
beings - Idovanus, for example. Contributions welcome.
Pam said
> try to avoid
>the Latin/Roman association for DH, as it carries many society and
>empire connotations which I don't think match very well. (ie, slave
>economies, worship of the emperor, classical architecture etc.)
I thought both classical architecture and worship of the emperor WERE features of Dara Happa. I am quite sure that Greg thinks recent Dara Happan architecture has a distinctly classical bent (more on this in disgusting detail if anyone cares - just let me know). And I know they don't worship the Emperor in quite the same way as the Romans did, but the Red Emperor certainly is worshipped, and the Emperor has always been at least a semi-divine avatar of a worshipped god. Though there are certainly differences - in Rome Empire worship was strongest in the outlying provinces (possibly because those in the capital could actually see the Emperor, which often made it hard to believe in his divinity), while in the Lunar Empire it is strongest in the capital.
In any case I certainly agree that the Lunar Empire is not a slave economy.
Rob said
>Of course, from those perspectives, the seven goddesses themselves
>are all Masks of the One, who is named Sedenya (unless you're a freaking
>all-out mystic and insist that Sedenya herself is but another Mask).
I knew there was a name for the one true moon goddess, but I definately did not think that name was 'Sedenya'. Sedenya was the name for a particular mask, the red moon of antiquity. The idea that there is a great goddess behind the mask is a pretty important part of Lunar theology, I think. I can't remember the name I thought was the goddess behind the mask offhand - <quickly nips home, gets very obscure gloranthan source> - ah, Tareltara. Of course, Greg has probably changed his mind on this.
Cheers
David
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