Re: Riddle me this, CrimsonBatman...

From: Andrew Solovay <asolovay_at_...>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:58:45 -0700

morganconrad <morganconrad_at_...> wrote:
> Andrew writes:
>
>> To put it at its most prosaic--there are probably a lot more Nysalor
>> riddlers who speak New Pelorian than, say, Heortling or Praxian or
>> Darkspeech.
>
> This is a "cute" idea and I would certainly accept it as a reasonable
> Glorantha. But Nysaloran riddlers have been around for hundreds of
> years, speaking all kinds of languages all over Peloria, Dragon Pass
> and Ralios.

Well, let me slightly modify my statement, and that may make it less controversial: It's much easier to *find* a New Pelorian-speaking Nysalor riddler than, say, a Praxian one.

To my knowledge, the Lunars are the only major culture where Nysalor illumination is officially tolerated. (...possibly Aldryami, too? I don't remember...) So finding a Heortling riddler takes a lot of spadework, or some dumb luck--whereas in Glamour, you just walk down to the marketplace and look for the guy with the big sign saying "Illumination Here--No Waiting". And he probably speaks New Pelorian.

...yes?

--AMS