Re: The Glorantha Digest V8 #72

From: robert darvall <Robert.Darvall_at_general.monash.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:22:55 +1100


Andrew Barton
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> What sort of writing do Trolls use?

I vaugely recall mention of sculpture using rock because the darksense penetrates the rock producing more textures than appear in the surface markings (chewed in). Thus anything could concievably be recorded merely by placing the correct rock in an appropriate spot. The implications for geurrilla warfare are staggering, which is appropriate given the nature of trolls.
Equally the whole of Boldhome could be an enormous trollish epic. Maybe dwarven constructions mean something truly obscene in Troll? There's a hook. Your stead keeps getting raided because the new barn is the equivalent of obscene graffitti about the local Kargg's Son's mother. Try getting your PC's to figure that one out. More seriously very little would be actually written. Why write when you have direct access to the spirit of the person who origionated the info? & their mother & hers etc. "Written in Darktounge" IMHO is shorthand for 'extensivly illistrated in a manner likely to convey more to Uz than to other bodies' This probably includeds references for which spirits to contact for further info/ clarification or even constitutes a summonning of the appropriate ancestral spirit. Accordingly these texts would be secret & probably sacred.

Out of time.

D


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