Peter crits his Gloranthan lore! hehehe
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> At 07:31 AM 5/26/2006 -0700, you wrote:
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> > > There's only supposed to be one set of Vadeli Isles.
>
> >Other isles may also have arisen in the Closing. This is accurate.
>
> So when sources make a song and dance about how the New
> Vadeli Isles arose during the Closing, nobody makes the obvious
> connection with the now-vanished Outer Vadeli Isles?
>
> But looking at the map of Men of the Sea p41, we see the
> same two sets of isles. So where do gloranthans get the
> idea that there was only one set of isles before the closing?
>
> > > Old Trade in Brithos should be bigger.
> >
> >This map is correct.
>
> Old Trade is much bigger in current maps of Glorantha including
> the most recent published one in Men of the Sea p41.
>
> > > The Fronelan Coastline is wrong (it was deformed during
> > > the Syndic's Ban).
> >
> >While the Wege is an amusing idea, this map is accurate.
>
> The "amusing idea" happens to be your own authoritative
> writings given at:
>
> http://www.glorantha.com/greg/q-and-a/kow.html
>
> and which explains a marked disparity in the Uz Lore maps
> between the 2nd and 3rd age coastlines (p21 and p29
> respectively).
>
> > > The Hum Chang and Fanzai were separate from the
> > > mainland and the Suam Chow did exist at this time.
> >
> >Wrong.
>
> I'm not too certain what you mean is wrong. The Suam
> Chow did exist before the disasters at the end of the
> Imperial Age. In the Genertela Book, it's said to have
> been created in prehistory (p27) and the old capital
> of Goropheng was flooded by the ocean in the Gods
> Age (p24).
>
> --Peter Metcalfe
>