Maize

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 21:25:45 +1200


Alex Ferguson

>AFAICS the main trick was getting there, getting the maize, and getting
>back in one piece

I think the main job of transplanting maize was done not by HonEel but the Seleran Empire. That spread hostile peoples all over the world to cause fear and confusion and so quite a few ignorants* would have found themselves in Peloria. They only have to change some corner of the Pelorian Otherworld to look like home and thus the Blood Sun is established there.

All HonEel has to then is to investigate this strange new hell and get a useful crop from it.

> -- maize grows much _better_ in Peloria than it ever
>did in the Kingdom of Ignorance, without any essentially different
>or extra fertility magic per se.

Mainly because the Pelorians grow it on ordinary soil while the Ignorants grow it on extremely rocky soil - this explains their extreme reliance on blood sacrifices.

--Peter Metcalfe

*A good example of an Ignorant family in the RW would be http://www.xmlpitstop.com/humor/BillyBob/BillyBob.html (one of many variants I'll have to say).

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