> |From: Mikko Rintasaari [mailto:mikrin_at_...]
> |> However, the prevalence of the rather Oriental-seeming Dragons and
> |> dragonewts in Dragon Pass has always seemed a curious combination.
> |
> |Oriental dragons are way different. The dragons of DP seem rather
> |european.
>
> I guess it's in the eye of the beholder, but the Dragonewts always seemed
> very "inscrutable", very Oriental, especially before we knew much about
> Kralorela.
>
> |I agree heartily. I'm just saying that American flora and fauna don't
> |seem to fit with the orlanthi. At least not for me.
>
> It never has bothered me before. I take Glorantha on its own terms, and
> don't try to measure it by how closely it corresponds to the real world; I
> don't mean to say that you do, but I'm not sure why it bothers you so much.
> There are satyrs and centaurs and minotaurs in Beast Valley; just because
> those are characteristic of Greek myth, does that bother you, too?
>
> Guy
No. I think I mentioned Greek for the mythical landscape of DP. The Greek elements (beastmen) came with the EWF, the "planes indian" grazers migrated from the east.
The root still feels Scandinavian/European to me
-Adept
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