The Terra Digest on Elmal

From: Thomas McVey <tmcvey_at_sric.sri.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 15:56:56 -0800

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> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 09:22:54 +0100
> From: david.boatright_at_clinisis.co.uk
> Subject: Re: The Glorantha Digest V8 #46
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> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 12:38:01 +1000
> From: MOB <mrmob_at_ozemail.com.au>
> Subject: Pushing the Envelope (Nandan Naffness)
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> G'day everyone,
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> ______________________________________
> Pushing the Envelope (Nandan Naffness)
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> Sorry I'm coming in on this late...
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> MOB
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> >As Simon Hibbs ably pointed out, Sun County transvestitism is >deeply
> ingrained in the original RQ2 cult write-up where it states >that maleLight Sons
> are forbidden to dress up as women: it >occured to me that youonly need rules
> against something like >this if there is indeed a problem with it!
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> So there was a real problem with cross dressing in the RW which must be why
> it was a form of heresy.

Got cc'd following response to a divination in my mailbox:

> From: Orlanth <bigpuffer_at_stormtribe.godplance
> To: Jarkarnos <master_trader_at_greydog.clan.sart>
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> Jarkarnos <master_trader_at_greydog.clan.sart> wrote:
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> > O Issaries, wise God of Communication, accept this gift of a sheep in my petition for knowledge.
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> > What's the skinny on Elmal, Yelm and Yelmalio? How are they related?
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> > PS. I'd like a direct answer this time, divining by reading the patterns of wagon ruts in the road gets a bit old.
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> Hello, Orlanth here, Issaries forwarded me your divination request and thought I'd clear the whole thing Elmal/Yelm/Yelmalio thing
> up.
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> Elmal is the love child of a Nandani-type coupling of Yelm and Yelmalio, when Yelm was a bit drunk and encountered Yelmalio, who
> was relaxing after a day's fighting by dressing up in some clothes he'd nicked out of Uleria's laundry basket. That's why the
> Yelmalions have all those prohibitions on dressing up as women. Don't want that kind of thing happening again.
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> The whole "contest" and me killing Yelm was just a ruse to get the Emperor out of the publicity spotlight until the whole scandal
> blew over. Getting to be King of the Middle Air was just my payoff for keeping the sordid details out of "The Imperial Enquirer".
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> We just haven't had the heart to tell poor Elmal yet. He left the Fire Tribe 'cos of all the sniggering and smirking every time he
> wondered where his mother had gone. Never figured it out, poor lad. Nice guy as gods go, but otnay ootay rightbay, if you get my
> meaning.
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> Still, that's a good thing in a security guard, dontcha know. Don't want them being too smart or they'll get bored. Now Elmal, he
> patrols around the stead, and never mentions that it's all getting a bit dull and he'd like to go from west to east this time just for a
> change. He's like the god equivalent of a goldfish.
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> Anyway, have to pop off now, got to put together a hurricane to bother those sorcerous bastards in Jrustela.
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> Regards
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> Orlanth
>

(I think it might be a forgery from Eurmal - can anyone check divination headers?)

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