Orlanthi questions

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 20:19:06 +1200


Terra Incognita:

>- -...But I don't know enough about 1st Age Connection of Unity Council
>Missionary and Talastar, what is Tar-umath?

Tarumath is "High Storm", a cult or brotherhood that worships the transcendent Storm. How it operates in Talasting society (in the Dawn Age and now) is a good question as a recent suggestion of mine was met with only silence.

>Maybe their Worship to Lightbringers was Superficial.

The Talastings were and are sincerely Orlanthi as the Heortlings. The conflict that lead up to the Immolation depended on what they considered acceptable behaviour (and they had slightly different answers).

>2: Empty Mountain, if it Exists in Modern Gloranthan Storm realm, which
>Mountain can be applied?

Doktados Mountain IIRC.

>5: I don't know these Words coming from RW Society: Wergild, Greeting,
>Wyter, Thane, Wyrd.....Can I find these source?

Wergild is literally Man-Price, the money you have to pay to for injuring or killing another person.

Greeting is simply what you say to other people when you meet them ("Hello" etc). The Orlanthi have a ritualized set of greetings which they use to greet strangers and foreigners.

The Wyter is a protective spirit.

A Thane is an Orlanthi nobleman while Wyrd is an archaic name for fate. There also is the Fyrd which means the men and fighting women of a clan or tribe called out for battle.

>8: Who is Narnarra the Greater? Man or Woman? I remember someone said about
>her, is she truly Nysalorian Missionary?

Nobody knows who Narnarra is. She's (or he's) highly unlikely to be a Nysaloran missionary as she was brought to help Aringor's people against the Shadow Empire and the God Learners. Given the absence of the EWF, my tentative thinking is that Aringor brought the EWF to Lankst (The Eastern Wilds are already covered by Ingolf). The EWF did their job but then began draconizing the local Orlanthi. Thus Alakoring had to go and root them out.

>or Ancient Primitive Orlanthi of Ralios? I don't know how they
>adopted Orlanthi Way to their Hsunchen Culture, they are not
>Vingkotling.

I think the adoption of Orlanth ways among the people of the Eastern Wilds was a long slow process that began with the World Council and finished in some indeterminate time between Arkat and now. The people of Lankst weren't originally Hsunchen but settlers from Dorastor and beyond.

>9: Ingolf Dragonfriend, in Wyrm's Footprint, Ingolf was killed by Blue Moon
>Assassin in 1051, but King of Sartar mentioned his Death was occured after
>he retired to Delela and Black Dragon swallowed him.

KoS is correct. People in Dragon Pass may know of Ingolf and believe he was killed by a Blue Moon Assassin.

>10: Alakoring Dragonbreaker, Northern Orlanthi of Peloria were called
>Alakoring Tribe, but in God Age, Winter Tribe and Summer Tribe exists in
>Vingkotling.

The Alakoring Tribes of South Peloria were Vingkotling in the Storm Age.

>And Other Bloodline of Orlanthi existed such as Haranding of
>Maniria (Enemy of Jarani),

The Harandings are a different people from the Vingkotlings.

>How much Ralian Influence in Modern Pelorian Orlanthi?

Since Alakoring came from Lankst, the "Ralian" influence is quite strong. However Alakoring didn't influence the Orlanthi of the Eastern Wilds, so the "Ralian" influence is not very strong there.

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