Re: Re: Clarity to the metals and elements

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:20:57 +1200


At 03:45 AM 3/22/03 +0000, you wrote:
> > At 09:28 PM 3/21/03 +0000, you wrote:

> > The problem is that once you start speculating that the place is
> > important to Gods, Kings and Heroes, the question then arises
> > why isn't Apple Lane more prominent then? As it is, it's just a
> > two bit village off the main roads of Sartar which doesn't warrant
> > attention from Argrath.

>Because it isn't a site of great power, just an odd place.

Which was my point. Places of the Gods are important places in glorantha.

>Few people in a war will be worrying about a site to the goddess of love,
>or see it as agreat resource.

Yet Argrath's Saga mentions his two marriages, one to the Feathered Horse Queen.

>Likewise, it mattered to Tarkalor
>purely because it happened to be the answer to a question, not
>because of inate value, and I didn't suggest that the kings made any
>ongoing attachement to it.

Considering the Kings attached great value to what they built, the argument that what they did has little value now doesn't sound right.

--Peter Metcalfe

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