RE: Re: Digest Number 2246

From: donald_at_...
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:21:35 GMT


In message <20051004055833.IBZN3160.aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com_at_homemaster> "Jane Williams" writes:  

>> Temples are more often located on an intrinsically holy spot. It is
>> very possible that this is the case for the Uleria temple at Apple
>> Lane.
>
>Having looked back through the thing, there's also a "temple to all
>deities" (??!!) - no chaos, but anything else goes. There's got to be
>some sort of generic weak spot to the Other Side here, or something.

That's either an Orlanthi all - meaning Orlanth and Ernalda. Or it's a Lunar plot to persuade Sartarites that all gods can be worshipped under the same roof and hope they won't notice the storm god isn't Orlanth but Doburdun.

>And quite apart from the "pawn shop", the place is money-obsessed.
>Coinage. Some Issaries curse?

The place Issaries where met Raw Greed?

>No, I don't have any sentimental attachment to the place at all,
>if you were wondering. It's one of the very few Gloranthan sources
>that I'd quite happily just wipe out all memory of. But if you really
>must perpetuate it, starting with "it's inherently weird, and sends
>everyone who lives there mad" is a good way to go.

It's good fun finding excuses for way it's the way it is.

Personally the thing I found weirdest about the place was all those apple trees and only one part time farmer to look after them. Even if you accept the basic concept of a hamlet relying on passing trade there is going to be a fair sized community of farmers to support it.

-- 
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/

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