Re: hidden stuff; Orlanth & Aroka

From: David Dunham <dunham_at_pensee.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 14:22:32 -0700


Chris Lemens

>Also, isn't the pass through the Mislari mountains through the Wonderwood?

I don't think its location is known (to us the omniscient players -- it's clearly lost to Gloranthans). That's certainly a fine place, since it's hard to get to -- but it's also perhaps too obvious.

>Is there a "Hidden King" quest that lets an Orlanthi shapeshift?

I think this episode is code for folks reverting to hsunchenism. This was the Great Darkness, and people had to do all sorts of stuff to survive.

Peter Mcaveney

>Way back in January 2000, Bryan M wrote:
> > To learn the details of the Orlanth and Aroka heroquest, one merely need
> > purchase a copy of King of Dragon Pass.
>
>Alex Ferguson wrote back:
> > - -.. and then subtract Storm Bull, and the chaos beasties, I believe
> > it would be correct to say.
>
>Last night I was skimming the copy of D:LoD I won on eBay and preparing a
>writeup of this heroquest. Suddenly it clicked - in the myth (KoS) it
>mentions that Aroka's lair is just past the "poisonthorn acre." That forest
>is, of course, in Dorastor (or whatever it was called back in the storm age.)
>Thus the chaos infestation ...

It wasn't a nasty place in the Storm Age... The point of Storm Bull and the Chaos beasties is to be unexpected -- until you get to the Otherworld, you don't really know all the details of the myths.

>P.S. I remember reading somewhere that Aroka = Oslir, but can't find it. Is
>that true or should I have my medication adjusted?

In Thunder Rebels, I believe.

David Dunham dunham_at_pensee.com
Glorantha/HW/RQ page: http://www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein


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