Not quite. That's geology. an area I know _very_ well...
The seas have been slowly growing more and more salty with each passing age, eon and era. Creatures from earlier eras would not be able to survive in the salty (MUCH saltier) seas of today.
This is also why many areas once farmed are desert - salt from irrigation-channeled water has evaporated and leached into soils which did not have a lot of un-mineralized rainwater. Much of the US Southwest is being lost to this as the water being used in the great irrigation projects is highly minteralised (and pumped up from greater and greater depths each year).
> Before you come up with this Magasta myth, you first need a myth
for
> why the running waters don't draw silt and minerals out of the
> earth. In Ernalda that stingy? Does she have some antagonism
> towards the waters? If so, how do plants grow, since plants need
> water and soil? What great feat did the Pelorians do to get
> irrigation and agriculture to work?
Best to assume it is allowed because the gods/sprits/whatever allow it. It certainly does mean that corp worship ceremonies are much more essential, yes?
> Messing with "normal reality" is a slippery slope, with lots of
> unintended consquences. This whole "rivers flow uphill" stuff is,
> IMO utter crap. Either there is gravity, or there isn't. If there
> is no gravity, why is Climbing a skill? I'm like Einstein, I want
to
> to know if God had any choice in making the Universe.
Things fall for magical reasons, not physical ones. Try to have a little fun with things. Its a world that is NOT ours.
This is Glorantha, a world of magic, I thought. Things happen because the myths and the world was eventually decided to be that way during godtime.
Jeff
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