- In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, "parental_unit_2"
<parental_unit_2_at_y...> wrote:
>
> So if there's some plausible
> long-distance trade route between Orlanthi and Malkioni in the Storm
> Age, it's plausible that the core of the language would be a mix of
> those two.
>
I am not at all sure that there was a plausible trade route at the
time, because the otherworlds were probably more seperate than they
later became, if I understand these things correctly (to be clear, I
probably don't understand these things correctly).
However, this being Glorantha, given that two people have myths about
how their people, back pre-time, created/invented the **same**
language, obviously both must be true. A few ways that this could be
the case:
1- They are actually the same myth, seen from different view points.
2- One myth is the origin, the other is a 'misapplied worhip' version
of it.
3- Mystically they are both true, for reasons that I, as a non-
mystic, can't comprehend.
4- (the one that I really like) They both found the same deeper truth.
In case 4, trade talk may be:
- the primal language of commerce, that has been discovered in
more than one place.
- Or it was the language created in some very early age, lost,
then re-found.
- Or it is the sure result of a certain fusion of runes, the
fusion of which can be accomplished in more than one way.
- Or all of those statements are actually saying the same thing
(getting into the waters too deep for me again, so I won't think
about that options much more).
--Bryan