Peter Metcalfe:
> >It's also possible that the Heortling and
> >Malkioni maps are both correct, but are from a different moment
> >in time.
>
> No, it's not possible. The two maps are the same period in
> time, the late Storm Age.
So, does that mean that there is only one map for the whole of the Late Stor=
n
Age? Surely an Age where several things happened could have several maps
describing the Age? It is my understanding that the seas flooded the lands
during the early and middle Storm Age and that the Storm Tribe forced the
waters back during the Middle and Late Storm Ages, but that this happened in
several pushes by both sides, with the waters ebbing and flowing across ther
lands. There could equally well have been a time during the late Storm Age
when the waters covered the land and when the waters had been pushed back.
In a similar vein, if there was only one map for each of the three Ages afte=
r
Time, then it would be very difficult to describe the various sinkings of
Slontos, the disappearance of Brithos and so on as some of those happened mi=
d
Age.
Sure, have a single map for each distinct moment in each Age, but don't say that the whole of the Late Storm Age can be described by only a single map.
On kilts and trews, I've never liked the idea that all Heortlings dress in
the same way and have the same customs. One of the distinguishing things
about clans and tribes is that they all have their distinct ways of dressing=
,
and I don't just mean different tartans. So, it should be easy to recognise =
a
typical member of a certain clan by the way he/she dresses, wears his/her
hair and so on. Having said that, there should be difference in a certain
clan by bloodline, with people dressing "properly" according to there own
people. There will always be people who dress differently from their own cla=
n
traditions, whether because of cult membership, personal choice or whatever.
So the statements that "Sartarites wear trews" or "Sartarites wear kilts" ar=
e
both wrong and right at the same time. "All Sartarites wear ..." is
completely wrong.
Simon
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