Markus, responding to me:
> Well, whatever you say. I just have the hunch that I once read about
> the Salmon Jump in some text concerning RQ heroquesting - a hero could
> invoke something he learnt on a heroquest, and the effect of the Salmon
> Jump was to swim fast and jump straight out of the water and up a
> waterfall. Like what fish do when they swim up rivers to get to their
> mating grounds...
>
> -B
Well that's just as well of course. That leap is what has inspired the Salmon Leap on dry land. It looks surprisingly much like a salmon leaping.
Parhaps your version of it was first, and the dry land version came later. I don't think the orlanthi are that good swimmers, though.
-Adept
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