Vadeli

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:50:26 +1300


Stephen Tempest:

>Where can I find more information on the Vadeli, if anywhere?

There's a whole heap of.... "detail" about Vadeli practices in the archives. Some of that went into a draft for the Glorantha: Intro but was cut.

>Are they human, a separate Elder Race, or a race of demigods like
>the Luatha?

They are humans like the Brithini are. Which is to say immortal humans.

>How many
>of them are there - a handful of survivors clinging to some tiny
>islands in the Western Ocean, or a nation powerful enough to colonise
>the Jrusteli Islands and briefly dominate the whole Pamaltelan coast?

The only population statistic that I've seen quotes 45,000 Vadeli in the whole of Umathela (against 800,000 Malkioni and 1,200,000 Orlanthi) ToTRM#10. I expect similar sized populations elsewhere in Jrustela, the Vadeli Isles as a whole, and scattered upon coastal Malkioni lands.

>All the references to them practicing evil sorcery, cannibalism,
>incest, etc seem to me to be subjective views from outside, the kind
>of slanders their enemies might say about them; but are they the
>objective truth?

Yup. Absolutely.

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