> But a soft or sweet-smelling fruit could also be rotten. We are the
> recipients of thousands of years of experiment and education. The Dawn age
> was filled with people that had lost *everything* except their lives. They
> lost their gods, their cultur, and their accumulated knowledge.
Agreed to some extent. Lost most of what was not relevant to immediate survival.
> And what
> knowledge they *did* retain was probably not useful in the new world of
> the dawn - They were used to a climate where the sun never set, and
> storms never come. Now they have to deal with weather and night and
> all those other scary things.
Strong disagree. This sounds as if we had someone toss a switch from Golden Age to Greater Darkness. Entire civilizations started and perished in the Storm Age. Memories of the Golden Age had become irrelevant long before the Greater Darkness came.
>> Still, that's the RW, and maybe Glorantha is less >> cooperative. The alternative explanation is "primitive >> people were stupid", and that's not one I'm ever going >> to accept.
> Not stupid, but they had lost their knowledge in the GodsWar.
> (Ignorant=/Stupid). Culturally, they were truely children, and
> young ones at that.
Only a cultured being could lose the ability to find ripe fruit. Taboos will override common sense and instincts. Experiences of things gone poisonous in the Greater Darkness may hamper the ability to scrounge food even after things reverted to a friendlier world.
However, if a group managed to survive the Darkness, they had done so by adaptability.
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