Nymphs and Dryads

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From: Joerg Baumgartner <joe_at_toppoint.de>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 22:35:46 +0000

Andrew Larsen:

>>It doesn't seem right, anyway - Uleria is the ancestress of all nymphs,
>>thereby of the dryads. Next thing will be to synthesize uzko in a lead
>>crucible?

> Could you explain/elaborate on this? Where are you getting this
>info from? Aren't dryads Aldrayami?

I'm referring to "Gods and Goddesses of Glorantha" in Wyrm's Footprints (pp. 34f - or, if you have it, Wyrm's Footnotes #5), where Grower and Maker are dealt with in some detail.

Aldryami are the foremost remnants of the Growers in the world, most of the other Grower people have disappeared.

Uleria is the Source of Life, the tilntae or love nymphs are her children (or grandchildren, etc.), and some of them specialized. Of these specialists, the dryads are more or less the tree specialized nymphs, and founders for most of the aldryami.