The latter. If the world machine hadn't been broken by Chaos then it would still be perfect, and it would still be unbreakable.
> Then does Chaos imply disorder or does it imply radical, random, or
> unpredictable/uncontrolled change??
Neither. Chaos implies the END of all that is real and possible, as the imposition of the unreal and impossible upon the universe tears it into tatters.
> Then which is more harmful?? A endlessly changing world, or a world
> where there shall never be any change??
A fair question in Moorcock's mythos, but incorrect in Glorantha. Gloranthan Chaos doesn't seek to change the world. Gloranthan Chaos seeks to destroy the universe.
> BTW: Does anyone know where I might find information on the cult of
> Valind??
Other than Gods of Glorantha, the only good source I have seen is a story someone (Jim Chapin?) wrote on the digest about the Last Icebreaker, which had some pretty good stuff about ice demons and an incarnation of Valind.
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