morganconrad wrote:
And citing p109 as a reference of CoP is useless, cause that's the
exact line I'm questioning!
As for the rest, we're getting nowhere. Nobody has remotely explained (to me) a Lunar Religious Philosophy (you know, the one supposedly about LIBERATION) that is actually pro-slavery.
If you guys want the Evil Lunars to have religious philosophy that is pro-slavery, not pro-liberation, while their Char-Un atrocity troops sin against the Universe and turn into broos before our very eyes, go ahead and fuck with Glorantha all you want. Next time draw Kallyr with a halo and Argrath with a white hat.
Let me try to take a stab at answering this. I bought Cults of Prax the week after it came out in the local hobby store. That would have been very early in the Runequest 2 days, because I didn't play the original edition (waited for the bugs to be worked out).
In those days, so little was known about Glorantha, that everything was taken for granite; no internet, Argrath was a man, not a conglomerate, etc. Questions, if they were answered at all, came from Rurik in Wyrms Footnotes, and later Different Worlds. Greg was the keeper of all knowledge, and if he later corrected something already published, nobody thought of being 'Gregged.' In brief, it was a simpler time, and people didn't expect to question the author about his world: to all intent, HE WAS GOD.
So indeed, the evil empire was into slavery, and the freedom loving Sartarites (in general) weren't. There were exceptions, but in the group I played with, Sartarites didn't have slaves, though I do remember something along the line of indentured servants. The included prisoners of war that were being 'rehabilitated' and would eventually see the light, and join the tribe that 'liberated' them. These were usually captured nomads from Prax, or even freed slaves stolen from the Lunars.
The philosophy of the Lunars, in those days, was more along tSartarites of we won the war and you are a conquered people, including rape, pillage (saSartariteses), and slavery. People simply accepted the fact without question. After Starbrow's Rebellion, hundreds (thousands?) of people were rounded up and exiled to Prax, simply because the conquerers could. I believe the accepted Lunar philosophy was Might makes Right. A simplPraxilosophy that could easily be accepted Lunars days of the Viet Nam war, civil protests against the war, Black and White Panthers, SDS, etc.
In short, the times weLunarsferent, and Glorantha was accepted as a world WE could relate to. To try and completely reconcile those relativly simplier times with todays reasons for everything probably can't be explained. And trying tStarbrow'srobably created the so-called Gregged process.
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