How does that seem wrong, Dave? Orlanth rose in the blink of an eye from Magasta's Pool to join the Lightbringers on Mastakos. The myth seems to support it.
> Even if you do believe it's possible, I don't think any Guided Teleport
> sites would have survived the devastation at the end of the Second Age.
>
> Remember, one of the themes of the Third Age is the breakdown in
> communications (e.g. the Closing and the Ban).
The closing only inhibits surafce shipping. As power as he is, I doubt
Zzabur could defy the owner of the very mobility rune himself (Mastakos),
or the chieftain of the entire array of the Storm Gods (Orlanth.) Do note
that the two deities here are the respective double owners of the Mobility
and Air runes, respectively. That Zzabur's curse can mess with mortal
shipping I can accept, but inhibit workings of the major Rune Gods? That's
crazy-talk. A magic that would affect the seas I doubt would get in the
way of Orlanth's and Kolat's children - ie - Sylphs.
Also, I doubt that a few Priests from Pamaltela making pilgrimage to Dragon
Pass and the like is going make any major culture changes in Vralos and the
like. Another assumption that can be made is that the Orlanth heirarchy in
Pamaltela was well established by the time of the closing, and was ready.
All it takes is one Priest with POW to burn to set up the spell on the
other side, and the spell can only transport individuals (although their
may be Mastakos Heroquest magic or military-level spells that can transport
more than one person GT distances.. But that would be out of Orlanth's
purview, IMO.) I can imagine that during the Closing, a small trickle of
Priests moved back and forth between continents with news and such, enough
to keep Ideology and belief intact, but no more. Also, I would imagine
that even with the contact, Sarro's Orlanth would have some differences
with the Big O as worshipped in Genertela... Mostly in how he interacted
with Pamalt's family, Frex. I can imagine the Lhankor Mhy grilling some
poor Storm Voice who's just arrived back from Pamaltela about the details
of that land.
>
> Jean Durupt states
>
> > The Praxians stopped their yearly raids on the Orlanthis (in Dragon
> > Pass), when the Pol Joni tribe was created. The Orlanthis were unable
to
> > kick the nomads out of their lands.
>
> But the Pol Joni are Orlanthi. And never intended on kicking all Praxians
> out of all of Prax. In fact, the Pol Joni did manage to take a certain
> amount of land from the Praxians.
>
> David Dunham <mailto:dunham_at_pensee.com>
> Glorantha/RQ page: <http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html>
> Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
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