Re: Uz society

From: Andrew Solovay <asolovay_at_...>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 11:24:23 -0800

Just to quibble... My sense is, when we talk about a troll society "dominated" by Zorak Zoran, we're stretching a point somewhat. I don't think any troll society could be "dominated" by ZZ the way Dagor Inkarth is by Kyger Litor, without turning into something completely unstable--say, something like the Kingdom of War.

It might make sense to say a society is "dominated by ZZ", if ZZ is the chief wargod (taking the place of Karrg et al.). In a society like that, I think we'd see the effects you describe. But Kyger Litor would still be the chief god--without her, they can't remain Uz at all.

Perhaps in such societies, Zorak Zoran functions as a member of the Circle of Eight. In that case, worshipping Zorak Zoran would, in essence, be worshipping an aspect of Kyger Litor. And that would mean their understanding of KL would be somewhat different than the understanding in Dagori Inkarth.

I think the same goes for Argan Argar, but less so. If Kyger Litor isn't the center of Uz life, they'll have a hard time having children. But in the Kingdom of Night, Argan Argar was (I assume) raised to a level of prominence not seen in other lands, so it would seem like Kyger Litor was de-emphasized and AA was emphasized.

...is this digest material?

--AMS DreadDomain <dreaddomain_at_...> wrote:

>

> ZORAK ZORAN (Dark empire)
> I suspect a ZZ dominated society would break a lot of uz taboos.
> Even if female would be jealously protected, they probably wouldn't
> have much social or political power as male would dominate everything
> and do like ZZ (whatever the fuck they would like). Housings would
> be less "natural state" (as in caves) than a KL society and more
> militaristic. Politics would have a less isolationist approach than
> DI and more bellicose.