Re: Carmanian Armageddon

From: Kevin McDonald <paul_mcdonald_at_...>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:37:39 -0000

> Kevin wrote:
> > the Carmanians were pretty wigged out when the Battle of
> > Castle Blue began...
>
> The *surviving* Carmanians, that is... I think the big *Carmanian*
> event would have been the Four Arrows (when their manifest gods were
> overthrown, the cult of Karmanos was destroyed, etc.); Castle Blue
> was on a more cosmic scale, with less specifically Carmanian
> 'chrome', IYSWIM.

Fearing the Stark Fist of Removal to the Glorantha Digest...

I agree that Four Arrows of Light was the big Carmanian event - it slew the last Shah and began a long period of suffering, disorder, and strife. I had actually forgotten about the Einherjar at Four Arrows of Light, though. I was referring to the army of the dead mentioned in Fortunate Succession (pg 52), where some residents of Castle Blue (the Veth Ethdisi) brought an army of the dead to destroy the Lunars of Meglardirth.

So, we have two events within a few years time that involve the dead rising to fight great battles among the living. Scary times - and history will soon repeat itself, if I am not mistaken. Happy Halloween! ;)

~Kevin McD