wrote:
> At 09:34 PM 3/22/2004 +0000, Jeff wrote:
>
> The biggest problem with getting over the Stormwalk
Mountains may
> not be the peaks -- suppose you are travelling east from Sartar.
You have
> your choice of pissing off the Wasp Riders or the Kitori or going
through
> the Print, none of which are really great options. Then you have to
deal
> with the various spirits, daimones, (essences?) which live on
individual
> mountains, plus Wind Children, mountain men, various weird hermits,
> isolated families with bizarre and probably fatal habits. When you
get out,
> if you are at the northern end, you may stumble into one of the
temples,
> which can't be a good idea unannounced (doubly bad if the Lunars
catch you
> and think you are carrying messages to one of the unsubdued temples
or
> scouting the New Moon Temple). When you add up all this, getting
over
> mundane peaks, finding those tricky paths, and not freezing or
starving to
> deal seems positively simple....
>
> Peter Larsen
And you're saying the dwarf, giant and troll infested Mislari and
Rockwoods would be easier? I suspect that they would be even worse
than the Stormwalk Mountains... Afterall, people *do* cross the
Stormwalks. No one crosses the Mislari (since The Man Who Would Be
Hero, Ethilrist).
Voriof