Tadaaki Kakegawa asked:
> 3. Is Elmal still worshipped among Sartarite? Yelm is not recognized as
> "the Sun"?
I can do no better than point you at Nick Brooke's adroit exegesis of the whole fraught question at <http://www.btinternet.com/~Nick_Brooke/elmal.htm>.
Dave Cake sez:
>
> If you want some ideas for magical card games such as Peter suggests
>occur at Casino Town, a good source of inspiration would be the book
>'Last Call' by Tim Powers. Tim Powers is highly recommended as a source of
>non-cliched fantasy. Last Call features people playing cards for their lives
>unaware, and has lots of cool magical flavour. Always get out of a card game
>when the smoke starts spiraling into the centre of the table, and your drink
>begins to tilt in the glass.
I can heartily second Dave's recommendation: "Last Call" is one of the best 'fantasy' books I've read in a long while, and a solid 9/10 on the weird-shit-o-meter. Reading it should help you make the Gloranthan Casino Town more than just a superficial version of Las Vegas. (Hey, speaking of Vegas, my parents were there last week, and gambling in the early hours one night, my dad saw a woman win 300 grand on a poker machine. He was pretty impressed, until he saw that she was playing all 9 rows on a $100 machine - that's *$900 bucks* a spin, so you'd need to win big like this. God knows how much she'd pissed away to win that.)
Unfortunately the sequel to "Last Call", "Earthquake Weather" veers away from goofy card stuff and takes a whacko Californian mystical shamanistic kingship approach that, while ranking at least 11/10 on the weird-shit-o-meter, made for a disappointing read. Plenty of inspirational fodder in it though.
Cheers,
MOB
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