Fonrit/Umathela

From: Stephen Martin <ilium_at_juno.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 01:40:30 EST


Peter Metcalfe:
>The lack of any mythic or cultural openings for the God Learners
>to exploit. They couldn't hope to conquer Fonrit under the guise of
>liberating the Blues because the later were undoubtedly (in the view
>of the God Learners) degenerate Blue Vadeli whose wretched condition
>was the Just Punishment of the Invisible God.

Surely the God Learners knew enough about various Gloranthan lands and history to know that there were other Blue People besides the Vadeli? For example, Troll Gods states that the blue Loper People were defeated in Seshnela in the year 805, with an implication that they were known before then for at least awhile. Do you think the God Learners viewed the Loper People as Blue Vadeli? Surely not.

>This is opposed to
>places like Umathela where the God Learners could pretend they were
>dealing with a mixed population of Orlanthi and Malkioni (a la
>British Israelitism) and teach them the proper ways which the natives
>had obviously forgotten.

I am not sure what you mean here, but the implication (to me) is that the Orlanthi and Malkioni had been here a long time before the God Learners arrived. My understanding of the area is that this is not the case -- some Malkioni might have settled here within 100 years before God Learner domination, but my understanding of the Orlanthi is that they were brought here _by_ the God Learners.

Now, I could believe that perhaps Umathela was an early EWF outpost which was "liberated" from the EWF and taught correct means of worship. But I don't think that fits what we know.

Dave Chneg must secretly be a Men-and-a-Half at heart, to so strongly sing their praises!

And before anyone starts to ask the usually-inevitable-at-this-point question, I want to remind people that even though Dave used the term "agimori", most of the "agimori" of Pamaltela are NOT Men-and-a-Half, they are basically brown humans. Just in case anyone forgot.

Stephen Martin
ilium_at_juno.com

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