>Tanisorian Carpets - Is this a new Persian slant to the Malkioni?
AFAIK Greg's thinking on Tanisor is evil papistry. Thus I filled it up with allusions to this, most of which were cut. The King was known as the Defender of the Faith for his part in expelling Loskalmi missionaries and the Pope had written a condemnation of the Hrestoli creed which was titled "A Syllabus of Errors". The Pope could unite his mind with God to provide infallible answers to questions of doctrine and also had the magical ability to dispense with certain laws (mostly written laws - but theologicians believe that physical laws could also be dispensed with - i.e. the same magic that allowed the God Learners do the impossible). There was also an Abbot who looked after the Index of Forbidden Books and could know where another copy of a book he had read was within the Kingdom. There was also a rational basis for Rokarism.
OTOH Magical Flying Carpets I think are Fonritan.
>Zebra hides from Esrolia - do they really breed zebra is Esrolia or are these
>really from Prax
Pass. It could be either of those things.
>Does Keanos have a sheriff; Keanos Reeve??
*groan*.
>Hezel Dorang .Dorasatan choas god..who is he?
New God hitherto unknown. Part of a great chaotic plot (which Greg may have spoken about at various conventions). The necklaces should be a clue of the god's origins.
>Whitefaces of Jillaro? Are all the New Moon cults are a satisfying
>bunch of crackpots and pisstakes?
I'll take the blame for the Whitefaces (FWIW I also wrote that people find them intensely annoying and some whitefaces have been badly beaten up). But no, White Moonies are not all pisstakes.
>Goondas? I love these guys - shaggy red haired drunken hooligans. (I
>just hope they don't wear tartan and worship a national football team).
>They even have a pop record; "working in a chain gang Goon-da da"
I was thinking of _Pongo pygmaeus_ rather than the scots, I'm afraid. Goonda is actually an indian term for bandit. That Anaxial's Roster left these guys out is a flaw in that otherwise good work.
>Ashurtans? are these, in effect, normal humans? will they try anything
>except theism (vile sorcery, evil acts, and communion with foul spirits)
Since they came from the Sky world, I kind of imagined them to be like Meliboneans, pretty on the outside, utterly twisted on the inside. They are still humans (although they might appear to be of refined Kralori or East Isle stock).
As for their magic, the passage is meant to imply that they can use no good magic of whatever source. They can worship only antigods, commune with evil spirits and use whatever vile sorcereries. They might even have an apititude with fallen mysticism, I really don't know.
>Time of No-Zitrs? OxyTen the Zitr Zapr. Are young Zitrs called baby-zitrs?
Zitr is a back-formation from Zitro Agron.
>Is anything more known about the red skinned demigods who lived on Trowjang
>before the closing?
Not really. I made them up on the basis of the Uz Lore map which shows the land as being part of the God Learner Empire in the Second Age.
--Peter Metcalfe
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