RE: Re: DP: Kjartan's Pool and the Pelaskans

From: Matthew Cole <matthew.cole_at_...>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:17:15 -0000

Hi Bryan

Thanks for the quick reply m8.

Here's what I've written because I didn't expect a reply so quickly.

[A little background: we run our games cycling three different campaigns (3 narrators, all in HQ, same players). Jamie is running his campaign set in the Holy Country, at Seaopolis and it features Pelasakan culture quite prominantly. I'm not going to belabour the point, just hoping the players will notice :) ]

A little literary cameo...
When the party approach this area, they encounter a group of Pelaskan fishermen arguing with a group of Poverrians. They are disputing each other's rights to plunder the Pool. Actually, the bickering is mythically precedented and protrays the relationship between Pelaskos the-brother-who-moved-away and Poverri the-home-boy. To present to the players:
"The two groups of people have the same amount of people in each; they are all wearing runic designs that include the (describe the Pelaskos rune) but one has a double wavy line under it and the other a single wavy line."

Thanks again

Matthew

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Sent: 29 January 2004 14:36
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Subject: Re: DP: Kjartan's Pool and the Pelaskans

• In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, "Matthew Cole" <matthew.cole_at_b...> wrote:
  > In Dragon Pass: Land of Thunder, there is a section on:
  >
  > Kjartan's Pool, Forgotten lake in Richberry Vale (DP Map: C4)
  >
  > I was reading the description and came across the following line:
  >
  > "... occasional Pelaskos worshippers come on pilgrimage, to pull
  exotic
  > species from the Pool's deep places."
  >
  > While I was reading Pelaskos in Storm Tribe, I noticed that he's
  the Sea
  > Fisherman and that it's his brother Poverri who remained behind
  when the
  > seas receded and became the freshwater fisherman.
  >
  

I wrote that entry, and chronically confuse the two fishing brothers. So you can view it as a typo if you wish. On the other hand, the editors left it the way it was, so either they get equally confused, or they liked the imagery.

Frankly, the image of salty sailors coming up to Kjartan's pool on pilgrimage is WAY cooler and more mysterious than what I'd originally been thinking of--and is probably why the editors didn't question that wording. So Y'P'MV, but I'd be inclined to leave it as it is myself.

--Bryan  

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