I must apologize. Dear Nick Brooke and Keith N, you are right: I didn't
explain myself. I quoted Lowlands and Switzerland only to stress that, if we
want to find a RW counterpart for any Glorantha location or viceversa, we
should not just stick to France, Germany and Italy, because medieval Europe
was more complex that that. That's all. We can forget them, of course, as
long as it's fun. One point to you, anyway.
I also apologize because, speaking of Safelster and Handra, I had not at
hand the books so I merely pointed what Italy was like, but I never
adventured with RQ in Ralios, so my knowledge of that region is superficial.
About Peter Metcalfe and the acqueducts issue, I say that Italy had a lot of
swamps because the Peninsula is very rich of water, rivers, lakes and any
wet source. Maybe the ancient Romans thought they resolved the major
problems with the acqueducts, but even without war destruction of them,
until this, erh... the LAST century, Italy was plagued by many large marshes
(and mosquitoes, too).
Ciao
Gian
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