> Does Glorantha reflect Yelm's light?
Weird question. What would you take different answers as meaning? Nobody thinks "Glorantha" is a source of light -- it includes light-sources within it, such as Yelm and the Moon and the Planets and the Stars and Fires and Flames and Glowing Chaos Monstrosities... And nobody thinks that any of the above shine by reflected light.
> But wait! Surely we should initiate them into the ways of the Red
> Goddess a slow step at a time, so that we may stand a better chance
> of converting them from their barbarian ways. Should we not reserve
> Lune-exposure for our wisest teachers?
Desperate times breed desperate measures. If the barbarians all enrolled in Philosophy classes at the Lunar College, sat quietly at the feet of our wisest teachers, and developed a profound understanding of the Lunar Way through the exercise of their as-yet untested intellectual faculties, that would be wonderful! (And, indeed, in the Healed Cosmos of the White Moon, this is how things will be). Because, instead, they descend on Lunar cities with fire and the sword, we zap their brains with extravagant doses of Lunacy. Serves them right.
Our wisest teachers learn from Lunes too. Just as Troll shamans learn stuff from spirits of Darkness which you would probably dismiss as "Shades" -- there's more to Dehori than Fearshock Attacks!
> What if they're not confounded? Is this not a tremendous risk we take,
> that our enemies may learn our wisdom and use it against us?
No: when they learn our wisdom, they invariably join us. Just look at Argrath. How can the Truth of the Lunar Way be "used against us"? To understand it is to recognise its inevitable cyclical recurrence.
> OK, so what's a Meldek? I get the general impression from what has been
> said, but specifically, what is the reference? I've never heard the term
> before. Is it related to Melchezedek?
Sartarite word for "sorceror", found in "Strangers in Prax" (the Western Sorcerer section), defined at the foot of p.65. Not related to any RW biblical names, AFAIK, and why should it be?
Nick
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