Re: Is Glorantha Bronze Age

From: Kevin Rose <vladt_at_interaccess.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 13:51:29 -0500 (CDT)


Trotsky wrote:

<< If we arbitrarily set the Dawn as equal to the dawn of RW civilisation in 3000 BC (give or take the odd century) then we're only talking about the advances from 3000 BC to 1400 BC, which while certainly not zero, weren't exactly vast AFAIK. And Glorantha has been through two cycles of disaster in that time, which can't have helped. Technology will have improved since the Dawn - which was a pretty low starting point - but the change would be nowhere near as big as between 200AD and 1800AD, frex.>>

The difficulty here is that Glorntha is not ADVANCING in technology, it is regressing. First age magic and technology was superior to second age and second age to third age. There were magical high tech cultures on Glorantha once. For example, the Feldichi artifact in Dorastor is a remant. But these cultures are all gone now. (Except for the dwarves, who are not really all that advanced in comparison.)

A lot of things have been lost. In the real world cultures talk about the golden age of their ancestors which, when you look at the archeological evidence, never existed. In Glorantha there was a golden age. And it was not just before the greater darkness.

Kevin


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