Re: Alone Again (naturally..)

From: ian_hammond_cooper <ian_hammond_cooper_at_...>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:19:37 -0000

Warning: Those who want a one true fixed Glorantha will probably hate this post. Move along then, there is nothing for you to see here. Those who believe that Your Glorantha May Vary (YGMV) feel free to read on:

> The Questlines timeline has the Tres, Bachad and Amad tribes
existing from about 1492. The Tres information is incorrect, based on new revelations in BA. Offhand I do not recall whence my date came,

Well, in 1490 HonEel is declared regent of Tarsh leading to rebellion among Old Tarsh loyalists tribes. Between then and 1492 we have the Battle of Dancing Sisters, which is a Lunar victory, the sack of Dunstop and Slavewall, and the razing and rebuilding of Furthest. So there may have been some refugees flooding into Aldachuri and Kerofini areas, which I guess is your source. The Amad and Bachad could originate at this time. BA indicates that the Bachad and Amad *pre* date Harvar.

It is suggested that the Amad and Bachad tribes, post-Harvar, are forced past Alone. If you wanted these tribes to be established around Alone before that, you might decide that this indicates that those clans nearer to Aldachur were sundered from their tribes, leaving only the traditionalist rump out beyond Alone, so the tribal centers of power, and holy places moved. YGMV.  

> The Tres are a recent tribe, though its people have been around
quite a while.

While clans persist the membership of tribes is fluid. The formation of the Tres does not mean that the clans that formed it are new, just that the political alliance between them, an anti-Harvar one, is. Some of the newcomer dissidents to the region, could have been absorbed by existing clans transforming those clans in the process. YGMV. There is no indication of when Alone is settled in BA, just that the confederation centered there is recent. Alone could pre-date them, and have been used by them as the center of their new tribe. YGMV.

Ian Cooper

"They were seven in all, and therewithal both sides rushed into the fight. Thorarin slew a house-carle of Thorbiorn's, and Alfgeir another, and there fell also a housecarle of Thorarin's; but no weapons would bite on Odd Katlason. Now the goodwife Aud calls out on her women to part them, and they cast clothes over the weapons." The Story Of The Ere-Dwellers Chapter 18