> Golden Age for Yelm was when everything stayed the same, people did
their appointed job in the same way every "day" (or other cycle!),
and so on. Until Storm messed things up. As opposed to now, when,
erm, Yelm does the same thing every day.... Then he did the same thing
because he wanted to and it
was his nature, now it's because he agreed to the Compromise?
"Well, yes! No! Yelm remained steady and stable then for the same reason he does now - he maintains the cosmic order, the fabric of the world. The Emperor of the Universe does not go flitting about wherever he will on some lewd or giddy whim. Not now, not ever before. The Almighty Godfather knows Justice. Good thing, too. Imagine if the world Responded to the Voice of an impetuous storm god!
"You barbarians only remember the world from the Time of Shargash - the Dark Time of monsters and savages. So you are convinced the world has changed. My people remember the world as it was in the time of the Almighty Godfather. It was dependandable then, as it mostly is now. The world has not changed, it has merely been corrected.
>But for the Orlanthi, Dawn was when Orlanth lost (gave up) a fair
size chunk of his freedom. A much more significant difference.
"Ah, yes - even spoiled offspring of invaders eventually grow up and accept responsibility....
(The remainder of this exchange was lost in the ensuing scuffle.)
Pam
End of Glorantha Digest V3 #282
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