Re: Gloranthan maps

From: bethexton_at_...
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 21:51:38 -0000

• In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, "Light Castle" <light_castle_at_s...> wrote:
  >
  > I think especially during the Hero Wars, borders are going to shift
  around a lot, and there will be rival claims.
  > Personally, in keeping with the way Glorantha does things, I'd put
  borders on maps in
  > supplements that match what the people the supplements are about
  think the broders
  > are. Thus a map from the Lunar Empire and a map from Sartar
  traditionalists would
  > likely disagree somewhat on the borders. (And I suspect maps of the
  Holy Country pre
  > and post Pharoah's disappearance would also have some differences.)
  >
  

Sounds reasonable. Certainly has more utility that the common:

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|                                                     |
|   state A                                           |
|                                                     |
|                                                     |
|                                                     |
|                                                     |
|                                                     |
|                                                     |
|                                state B              |
|                                                     |
|                                                     |
|                                                     |
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(my excuses if the ASCII art doesn't work for your viewer.....). I mean, the border could be about in the middle, or right near one or the other of the words, or follow some rather pathologically winding route, or.....

I think we can understand that borders shift, borders are disputed, in some cases borders are not clearly defined. But having SOME idea of where they are is still useful, and I'd rather have incomplete data than none at all.

--Bryan