At 11:45 AM 6/28/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>> In Dara Happa Doburdun is primarily the big but harmless midcontinental
>> summer thunderstorm.
>
>Setting aside the word "harmless", I always imagined Shargash's
>primary physical manifestation being sudden summer thunderstorms
>(and Peloria has just the right geography for these, too).
>
>Are the two physically different storms, or more like different
>theistic associations attributed by different regional cultures
>(Alkothi and Darsenites (?)) to the same piece of material
>meteorology.
I think that if the storm was harmful and blew down your house, it was a
Shargashite Storm. If it watered your crops and colled down the plow team,
it was Doburden.
I think that the Doburden Storms are basically those big fluffy drenching
midwest thunder storms. The Sartarites call this the Ohorlanth Storm.
Shargash is superior to any specific storm, but can permeate any of them
with his destruction.
Shargash also has other manfiestations of his power outside of the storms.
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