Of course -- Chaosium has an actual Gloranthan duck skeleton, which they had at RQCon II, and might someday take elsewhere. About 3 or 4 molars on each side, in the back.
As I recall, RQ2 (if nowhere else) says that the Ducks were cursed to bear live young, one of the reasons they can't fly any more.
Jon.Thorvaldson.4851_at_student.uu.se (Jon Thorvaldson) HQ in other worlds
>No, that is not true HQ. Heroquests take place in _Gloranthan_ myth, and
>what you have seen must be those GM's own versions of heroquesting.
>Personally i'e never heard of people heroquesting in other gameworlds,
but
>then I've not heard of that many campaigns wherein the PC's have gone on
a
>HQ, either.
While this statement _is_ true, it also seems to be incomplete. It may only have been a very cheap marketing ploy for their burgeoning line of BRP-based RPGs, but I here quote from Advice from Rurik, official Q&A column in Wyrms Footnotes 14:
Q: The rules to Stormbringer indicate that there are other ploanes in RuneQuest. How can these be reached using the RuneQuest rules?
I also note that a very famous RQer from Greg's campaign, Redbird the Sage, was originally a D&D character, who underwent some major changes when he changed to RQ, but who retained his other-worldly origin.
Karlorela and Kralori
Recent private divinations have indicated that my statement was correct, but only so far as it went.
The writings in question all deal with the Second Age. And they are correct, for that time period. However, when I was dropping off some of Drastic to Rob Heinsoo for approval yesterday, I talked to Greg on the subject, and he indicated his belief that the Kralorelan Empire per se _HAS_ existed throughout most of pre-History and history. However, after the whole Dragon's Eye thing in 375, apparently the Emperor left most of the Empire to be run by his more or less human exarchs and other functionaries, and after a few centuries, they had made a total mess of things. When he came back after the False Dragon Circle was routed, he set the land back in order, and drove those nasty hsunchen people out again.
So, I retract most of my statement, and apologize for any confusion it may have caused. It just proves, once again, that A Little Knowledge is a dangerous thing.
If you allow for the dissolution of the Empire during the Second Age, I think that Nils' description is very accurate. I think that the hsunchen tribes have been invading, off and on, since the "Green Age", when they would probably have originated. Unless they first came in the Storm Age/Lesser Darkness, which would make more sense in a mythic fashion.
Part of this discussion indicated that it is likely Yanoor was not actually an Emperor, though he was probably the Grand High Vizier of the Golden Dragon Throne, or something like that. He would have wielded most of the responsibility of the office, though not all of the powers. This is one reason he was so "easily" defeated (and I still think he probably put up a hell of a fight).
The Closing and Dara Happan Mytho-history
The God Learners couldn't sidestep the curse of the Closing, because all of them were destroyed before they had a chance to figure it out. Since Dormal was using some sort of ancient plans when he had hsi first ships built in the Holy Country, it may be that he even found some God Learner records on them, which the GLs couldn't test.
As for Dara Happan Mytho-History, of course all the stories about Nysalor, Arkat, and Gbaji are myths now -- why else do you think they all contradict each other. Good god, look at Lords of Terror -- five pages of people saying who Gbaji or Arkat was, most of them very different, and no two that agree on even half of their particulars.
Sheng is another matter -- he was only 200 or so years ago, so has not had a chance to pass into myth. Though I will note that all we have read so far is Lunar histories, which certainly won't paint him in a completely accurate light, you must admit.
Peter Metcalfe
>The Battle of the Falling Hills took place in Holay in 1374 ST could
>be considered an invasion of Peloria. The whole affair is extremely
>murky considering that the Fortunate Succession makes no mention of
>it *yet* the Tarshites claim the Emperor was killed.
Since Falling Hills was prompted by Lunar aggression (in both versions of the story we have, the Lunar one and the Tarsh one), only the most pro-Lunar propagandist could say that it was an invasion of Peloria.
And that's all the time we have today, Ladies and Gentlemen! We hope you've enjoyed the show, and that you'll come back tomorrow.
Stephen Martin
ilium_at_juno.com
- -----------------------------------------------The Book of Drastic Resolutions
Powered by hypermail