Re: Bronze age Glorantha.
I think the best aspects of Glorantha are the ones where the culture is not
lifted directly from real world history, but simply used for inspiration, to
get a real feel for a culture in Glorantha. History is a good place to learn
how cultures work, but I HATE it when someone just lifts a real world culture
completely and dumps it somewhere where is doesn't belong. I grates. I read it
and think NO! There are very different pressures on culture X, you cannot use
them to represent people Y. I think Greg Stafford's approach of 'people
creation' where he seems to pinch bits from just about everywhere and then ties
it all up into a coherent whole is the best and most imaginative way of doing
it. So I shall not enter the debate for which particular culture represents
which group from Glorantha. Except ...
Has any one noticed the similarity of the names of the cities of bronze age
India (the Harappa-something-or-other culture) and the Dara-Happans? For
example, the primary city of the Indus valley was Harappa, and there is
Judeijo-Daro, Moheijo-Daro etc.. The only thing I know of them is that they
built cities with large citadels (a la Mycenae). Does anyone know anything
about them? Is it all just a coincidence?
Stephen Lucek.