Re: Glorantha Digest V4 #312

From: Andrew Raphael <raphael_at_research.canon.com.au>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 13:14:09 +1000 (EST)


Alex Ferguson <abf_at_interzone.ucc.ie> writes:

>I think the assumption is rather that all broadleaf evergreens are
>"yellow elf forest". (Perhaps with the exception of some evergreens
>in mainly "brown" forest, which would be seen as "green", whether
>conifer or not.) This may well mean them some "yellow elf jungle"
>isn't very jungle-like at all, particularly where the forest starts
>to thin out towards the south.

Since Australia used to be covered by rainforest, but now has the dry schlerophyll forest we're all familiar with, I agree that the southern fringes of the Pamaltelan jungles are the likeliest places for Aldryami based on Australian plants, and they count as yellow elves.

Now Australia is very big on mistletoes too. There's even a tree sized mistletoe called the Christmas bush, which insinuates itself into other tree's root systems. Mistletoe seeds are very sticky. Most eucalypts have a mistletoes attached, so perhaps many eucalypt elves have an attached mistletoe runner? Shades of the movie "Basketcase", eh?

More obscurely, there are orchids here that bloom underground and are fertilized by beetles or flies. Darkness plants! I daresay the hot trolls are keen on these.

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