|Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 15:47:45 +0200
|From: James Frusetta <gerakkag_at_mail.bol.bg>
|Subject: Lunars & Sea Port
|
|Loren Miller wrote:
|>One thing that people are missing on the Lunar expansion south is
|>this. The Lunar Empire is huge, wide spread, and landlocked.
|[Various excellent points snipped.]
|>The only route to the sea, until the Sweet Sea opened up a few years
|>ago, was south through Prax or Sartar. The Lunars have conquered
|>Pavis and Corflu, giving them one route to the sea.
|
|Despite the Warm Water Port mission being clearly suggested in various
|sources, it's always seemed a bit suspicious to me -- either
|some of the
|Lunar policy-makers have gone ape over the idea without thinking it
|through, it's a front for something else, or Greg really *does* have
|some weird unconscious Russian parallel floating at the back of his
|brain. All possible, of course.
One should not overlook another important fact here: the Xola Fel is the
only river in Glorantha whose mouth opens onto an ocean rather than a sea,
thus providing access to the underworld. This is why the Giants used it to
float their cradles downstream (at least, according to Sandy). I have a
feeling the Lunars wanted it for a similar reason.
Guy