Planes...

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 22:55:44 +0100 (BST)

Joerg:
> Who's that Worlath god? Why would any Kethaelan want to visit him? Next
> thing you suggest the Aeolians visit Genner?

I think your complaint illustrates my biggest dislike of the "four worlds stuff", and my biggest fear about what on those lines is yet to come

> >I suspect those would be not so much '_not_ the mundane world of the
> >"present moment"', as both in that, and in... some other place.
> >(Barrier- weakening, co-location, etc.)
>
> In my campaign, there are valleys among the Quivin peaks which don't exist
> on the purely mundane plane, but which fill the necessary gap in the mundane
> maps.

Well, if you can get there by "mundane" means (if one were so foolish as to walk there unpreparedly), rather than it being a question of whether the place looks "mundane" when you get there, then I think my construction stands.

> I can live with a bridge of testing between Aeolus' hall and the rest of
> Stormstead where passants are thoroughly shaken and assailed by the winds of
> doubting, but I still think that there should be a representation of Aeolus
> in some odd and forbidding niche within Aedin's Wall.

If I read Greg correctly, he's saying that you can have exactly this, the bridge of testing being "located" not on the otherworlds, though, but necessarily on a "HeroPlane". (Perhaps the Mythic Age in which the connection was 'discovered', or a Short World...)

> If nothing else, the misapplied veneration of the Aeolians does go to
> Great Orlanth as the transcendant end.

One would certainly like to think so.

> Certainly, there can be less friendly regions of the godworld for an Aeolian
> than the Storm Realm...

Indeed. If this were one of the Hero Wars mailing lists, I would suggest that "just wing it" is much better advice, and much more in the spirit of That Game, than "according to the Canonical Cosmology and De Roolz, that must be a flat -20, mate". As this is the Glorantha Digest, though, I couldn't possibly comment.

> So Argrath could bring Hunralki through Karulinoran and boast "this is my
> Red Dagger I took in plunder from the distant Malkioni port" (possibly while
> Hunralki bears that knife)?

Sounds plausible to me. All the more so if there's detailed mythic precedent, his "supporters" (in the ritual sense) all buy it, etc.

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