> Just to forestall one potential criticism. No, I'm not trying to defend the
> Great Compromise.
I'd raise that as a point of agreement, not as criticism! I think that's very much how the Orlanthi view the situation, except they'd put it more strongly; their gods have taken _oaths_ not to act, and if they did, Extremely Bad Stuff would happen.
However, I don't think it's a view that anything like a unanimity of Glorantha cultures would sign up to. So even if it's true, it's not True for the Dara Happans, the Pelandans, the Carmanians, the Kralori, the Malkioni, the Brithini...
> What I want to know "objectively" is what happened in the past, a rough
> chronology of events.
I think that's understandable, an in a philosophical sense, I'd have to agree that some sort of "objective history" must exist, for all reasonable models of the universe (and maybe even for the Orlanthi one, too ;-) -- hey, put that thunderbolt down, you'll have someone's eye out with that!). Trouble is, no-one is _ever_ going to agree on what it is. Gloranthans certainly don't, and hashing it out on the Digest would be the dialectic equivalent of a months-long root canal. This would have the two ends of the Sobjectivist spectrum _really_ at each others throats, as it seems to be what they most disagree about. Witness the fact that it's what they very frequently end up arguing over, while the notional topic is something entirely different. I comfort myself with the thought that being resigned to the dim past being ultimately unknowable, while somewhat unsatisfying in some respects, at least spares me the brunt of the pain of _that_.
Cheers,
Alex.
End of Glorantha Digest V4 #523
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