Peter Metcalfe
>The ancestors of the Praxians (in the days when Genert was alive)
>were Theists.
Do you mean the Founders' generation of the Beast Riders, or the various obscure Golden Age People whose few surviving descendants include the Oasis People?
The Golden Age Praxians might well have been theists (although this has slightly nasty consequences for the worship at the Paps, re: misapplied ecstatic worship of theist entities). Luckily the original gods of Prax are weak now, so misapplication rules might already have been in effect as long as we know RQ...
>Generally before the Storm Age, practitioners of
>the four viewpoints tend to be found in specific geographical
>regions (Theists - North, Sorcerors - West, Mystics - East and
>Animists - South).
With the exception that the earliest animists - the Hsunchen - migrated from the South even before Pamalt showed up, and were practically omnipresent after the Green Age.
BTW, according to their own myths, the Beast Riders rode in from the south as well.
>Of course this comes from the God Learners
>and doesn't take into account everything...
>Giants are also found in the mythology of the Pelorians (Gerendetho,
>Ko and Char) and the Orlanthi (the Wicked Uncles KoS p64).
True, but are these the Elder Giants in the sense of Gonn Orta's older kin?
Enemy and sometimes one's own gods are called giants, but this doesn't make them Elder Giants.
Larnste is bloody gigantic when talking to the dragons of Dragon's Eye (go visit Larnste's Table) or stamping down on Krarsht a few steps further south, leaving his Footprint. This doesn't quite make him a giant.
(BTW, is Larnste the maternal granddad of Orlanth? After all it was his seed which grew Kero Fin. ;-)
I have the suspicion that Larnste sowing the Rockwoods and the dragon-giant war describe two versions of the same event.
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