This comes from the initial concept, which the God Learners seem to have taken from the Theyalan Second Council. IMO the Theyalans had the complete set of powers, elements, and forms, with deities of their own culture, and the inclusion of Bolongo for Disorder (and the assignment of Eurmal to Illusion) means that the God Learners have been tricked.
I find it a bit strange that they were so willing to drop their native deities' names - Aerlit for air, Ehilm for fire and the sun, etc., for the Theyalan names. Was this to prevent their home populace to include paganisms once again after the Serpent Kings' and some of their successors' semi-pagan ways had been rooted out?
Peter Metcalfe
>Obscure Rune Triviae:
>AIR: is pretty much the same all over the world. It's derived
>from the path Orlanth's Ring traces out over the Heavens. I
>consider Orlanth to owe this rune as he's the biggest and most
>sophisticated Storm God around in Glorantha.
I always found this a lame excuse - why should anybody explain air by a constellation which appeared only quite lately in the Silver Age sky? (The Yuthuppans number the first of the rebel stars as #50, appearing just before Lightfore rises again.) The spiral is the form of the cyclone, and in smaller scale the whirlwind. Magasta might have claimed this for his element, but the waves depicting water may have been more familiar to the land lubbers.
>CHAOS: This is apparently related to the Dara Happan Rune for
>Artia, the Bat Planet.
To me it also appears as a horned head. Think Broo, Tien, etc...
>DRAGONEWTS: Look at the configuration the Dragonewt Cities
>make on the Map of Dragon Pass. I'm skeptical the Dragonewts
>themselves are aware of the rune.
One of several "scale" formed runes of draconic origin. IMO this rune is an incomplete version of a (lost?) dragon rune. Something similar to the beast rune, which is described as a dragon scale.
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