> There has been some discussion as to why the Lunar Empire is so dead
> set on oppressing those freedom loving Orlanthi hill tribes. I
> thought that I'd revisit the question in an attempt to bring this
> thread back to a Gloranthan topic.
[...]
> e) Does a senior Lunar official desire a chance to become better
> acquainted with the Demivierge of Rhigos?
Ha, ha, ha !!! Lust ! True, clean, fun sexual lust as an engine of war... I like that, shades of Helen of Troy coming in our beloved Glorantha, nice ! Very MGF. Who is this senior official, by the way ? (Fazzur is only interested in Hendira, so that rules him out I guess. Besides he is only a provincial, pshaw !)
Personally & more seriously, I would add another reason for the lunar expansion:
d) Yelm is the Emperor of the universe. Yelmgrandson Imperator has the Mandate of the Sky to rule all of Genertela. We, Dara Happans, are the chosen race whose destiny it is to subjugate & rule the whole sinful world. The Sun's daughter, the Red Moon, is only a Veil, an Illusion, a Mask, to protect the heathens from the full majesty of Yelm's glare. This time, we shall overcome ! Under the rosy sight of the Daughter, the mailed golden fist of the Father shall prevail ! Dara Happa rules !!!
> And, if you couldn't tell, I am a fervent believer in the idea that
> the Lunars are Glorantha's Evil Empire. Ooze dripping chaos spawns,
> everyone of 'em. And them that don't detect as chaos are probably
> illuminated. I guess it comes from playing an Orlanthi as my very
> first character back in the early '80's.
Hah ! The Eighties ! The delightfully yuppy 80's of my youth ! I came of age in the decade of greed (see, greed again... ;). 1981-1990: from tree-hugging socialist Cold Warrior to full-blown (Hail Orlanth !) libertarian in ten great years that include the Day-the-Bloody-Statist-Twentieth-Century- Ended: 9 november 1989 !!! And all this in spite of Maggie & Ron, those two neo-socialists... :) ;) :)
[The Long Century, the XIXth (19.4.1776- august 1914); the Short Century, the XXth (August 1914-9.11.1989)]
(Sorry, I couldn't refrain... ;) No offense intended to those socialist fanatics out there... ;) (In a certain sense, I'm still one myself. ;)
> No offense intended to those Lunar fanatics out there...
Might they be the same ?!? ;o)
> Free Winds!
Yep.
Christoph Kohring http://www.proLibertate.org ------------------------------
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