Peter:
>Already contradicted in one specific case. The sailors do not worship
>Vargar but Yestendos himself (Glorantha: Intro p103 and p112), he
>having learned how to do so during the Flood AFAIK but the secret
>became obsolete when the Moon fell.
The _sailors_ do not worship Vargar, that is correct, rather its the pilots and "engineers" who do so.
>On military Moonboats, the crew is split three ways. As well as the
>Yestendos crew that keeps the boat in the air (the following bit is
>either Greg's or Martin's),
The Yestendos guys maintain the reed boat structure, so in a sense they keep it in the air, the Vargari actually power it with the energy of the Goddess.
>the officers are from "the Lunar and
>Celestial elite" (i.e. Yanafali, Pole Star, Urvairinus etc) while
>the Marines are from the Sky Captain cult whomever that is
>(Anaxial?).
Agreed. Though the Celesital elite includes Vargari and many other otherwise unwritten or unpublished Lunar and Yelmic cults. The Sky Captain cult would be Urimaz or a variety of other recognised Sky Captains who serve as marines, as you say. Anaxial is an aspect of Yelm and as such would certainly be classed as officer material and possibly a navigator too.
>Hence none of the officers would be Darjiinians (unless they
>were Lunars) and I think the Pilot is a more conventional type
>than depicted in YBoT3 (although whether the moonboat has
>rudders is one that Greg might have a strong opinion about
Also agreed. The Darjiini are not officers (unless they have happened to have risen far in Vargar or a cult that would have officer status on the boat). Rudders is another issue - Greg said they have masts and may have a form of rudder, but he wasn't sure. I expect we'll hammer it down with him when the Imperial book gets closer to completion.
Martin Laurie
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