Repost: Orlanth's Ring disappearance

From: Peter Metcalfe <P.Metcalfe_at_student.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 10:34:13 +1200


Reposting this because it shows up in the index of v04.n025 but the digest itself has been mysteriously cut off.

Stephen P Martin:


Me>>The
>>critical weakness that afflicted the heathen god in fronela might
>>be explained if he was a storm god.

>Worlath would be the heathen god
>mentioned in this part of Cults of Terror?

I really don't know. I think the God might be Urox who is known to be in the area rather than Worlath.

>So,
>the only missing piece is determinging when it disappeared again during
>the Third Age. And the defeat at Castle Blue is, of course, the obvious
>candidate. Perhaps the "wound in Orlanth" referred to is not _just_ the
>Red Moon itself, but also the missing Ring in the sky.

But the Ring of Orlanth is still visible as of 1621. *But* there is a entry in KoS which describes a hero (whose name escapes me) who fails the Lightbringer Quest after castle blue and causes stars to fall on his people. So if Orlanth's ring had disappeared after the Castle Blue, then he caused it to reappear with catastrophic side-effects.

The second time during the third age was a deliberate act by the Lunars which involved the conquest of the Southern Orlanthi (which ended with the fall of Whitewall) as well as a magical ritual at Castle Blue. The Lunars were hoping for a permanent banishing this time.

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