YarGan and Blue People from TERRA INCOGNITA on 2002-11-19 (Glorantha Digest Vol 09)

From: TERRA INCOGNITA <inarsus-ferilt-z_at_mrg.biglobe.ne.jp>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 00:27:12 +0900

Graham, your recent restriction is hard for me, I think my e-mails have been rejected simply when I included only one or two Japanese Character blanks....

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> Joerg:
> >> Given the description of the Kachasti War, are the Pelandan blue
> >> sorcerers technically Vadeli?

No, I don't think so, either.
About Peter's idea, see here.
http://www.glorantha.com/greg/q-and-a/bluepeople.html http://www.glorantha.com/greg/q-and-a/janube.html

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> Peter Metcalfe:
> > No. The Blue Wizards originate as sorcerers from Sog City
>
> The Sogites are in league with the cannibalistic abominations of
> Darkness Pelanda? I didn't think they were involved in Pelanda. Not
> beyond summoning the Janube from the Sweet Sea.

I rather think they and YarGan gradually got their hands dirty with Dark Sorcery exiled from their Unknown homeland. About the original Blue People of Pelanda, see Entekosiad p.49-53. I think they had very mixed origin.
Perhaps some of sorcerers mated with Deep Ones with Cthulhu Myth sense and got blue skins....IMHO.

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> > and are so called because they were servants of the Blue Folk, not
> > because of the colour of their skin.
YarGan also came Pelanda over Great Barge and killed Blue People King Oronin. Maybe he welcomed his former relatives.

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> So the people of King Blue were not sorcerous at all?
>

Rather I think King Blue got blue skin when he contacted the Demon Erstoro, (later it was renamed "Ganesatarus" by HQ or something magical vagueness.)

> > The Blue Vadeli are not associated with water but corpses.
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> I didn't say or mean Blue Vadeli, but generally "evil sorcerers from the
> west". Revealed Mythologies could be summarized as "good prehistoric
> sorcery=Zzabur, bad prehistoric sorcery=Vadeli". In the Kachasti War,
> Vadeli subjects or prisoners of war turn upon their Kachasti masters in
> southern Fronela, help their Mostali allies in raising the Nidan
> Mountains, and enslave the Kachasti. Afterwards, the Pelandans tell
> about King Blue and sorcerers committing atrocities in their lands to
> match Zzaburite propaganda about Endernef.
>

Maybe it is the coincidence by chance, simply. In Glorantha, something might turn "Very Evil" into blue....and let them into Hell. Nick Brooke told so in Glo Con #4.

Sincerely:
TI

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