> Is there a difference between darkness and lack of light?
Yes, absolutely. Darkness is a Gloranthan element. It exists.
> What happens when a light source and a darkness source "shine"
> in the same room - do you see something which is light, dark,
> grey, pitch black?
Darkness doesn't usually "shine" -- the shadow orbiting the Red Moon is unusual in this regard. If you were, say, travelling through Dagori Inkarth, you'd notice that the sky was less bright than usual (regional strength of darkness); that some valleys were filled with shadows (huge elemental spirits of darkness); that in the dark there were obviously scary things moving around...
> It strikes me that if we really wanted to find out what had actually
> happened many years ago in Glorantha, we should ask a dwarf...
> So ... if you were able to get yourself a dwarf [...] and you asked
> him to tell you everything about the Spike (say), you would find out
> pretty much everything there is to know about it with as much true
> historical accuracy as it is possible to get.
Sure! If you could get this information, you'd learn the Spike's dimensions, weight, specific density, tensile strength, spatial coordinates, estimated time to repair... and all of this in the ever-so-precise Mostali units of measurement (which mean nothing whatsoever to the rest of the world).
Oh. Is that not what you wanted?
Did you think the dwarfs really *cared* what was going on on the Spike? That would be like, say, computer network technicians taking an interest in the lives and romantic exploits of the mice who are nibbling their cables. That's not what goes down in the log-books, is it?
Nick
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