Pete Nash writes:
>The fanatic Yelm culture I placed around the areas are the human (and
>some elven) decendants of the divine and semi divine guardians of the
>gates. They are fierce and resolute, because they have to help guard the
>gates through eternity. Every once in a while a Dara Happan (or Pentan,
>or SunDomer) quester will arrive at the gates, so the local inhabitants
>will have some overtones of these cultures too.
Wearing my strong Heortling hat I must say "preposterous"! "Everyone" knows that the western lands are inhabited by the Luathelans, a race of demigods who hate strangers. When Orlanth waded ashore on his Westfaring to the Western Gates, they opposed but Orlanth had the Eternal Ring of the Vingkotlings who defeated the purple skinned immortals.
>From G:CotHW we know that there are a race of powerful purple-skinned, who
smashed the royal army of Seshnela and shattered the kingdom. I doubt
strongly that they are Yelm worshippers, in fact I rather doubt that they
are even theists.
Allen Wallace, a fine enough fellow, writes:
>On a side note, it seems to me a lot of new Glorantha wisdom is a touch
>too cynical for my tastes. My problem, not anyone elses.
Hey, I am a lawyer by training! What do you expect, sunshine and daisies?
Nick Brooke, a man who is truly hipster cool and knows damn near all the
lyrics to "American Pie", wrote:
>> In the War of Arkat, I can see Healers taking both sides
>Agreed. Which fits just fine with Jeff's exegesis: Makla Mann killed *bad*
>Healers. But modern Orlanthi don't believe in "bad Healers". Which is why
>the heroquest looks weird and dangerous and anti-social to us today, but
>makes perfect sense in its original context (a war in which illuminated
>Orlanthi, Humakti and Chalana Arroy cultists fought against each other,
>ignoring cult and cultural restrictions whenever it proved expedient).
Thanks Nick - you summarized my disjointed thoughts on Makla Mann and the Cross of Lead perfectly. And my "fan-source" as well.
Finally kudos to Sandy, a man who is so cool he is beyond hipster cool, for
writing:
>I think the Lanbril cult write-up was ludicrous. It
>was way too well-organized and stank of modern hack'n'slash tripe. I
>simply cannot believe that there would be a huge canny cult of thieves
>worshiped in Orlanthi lands.
Thank you for saying what I lacked the moral fiber to state so bluntly. You are the man.
Jeff
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