Re: Death of Orlanth

From: ttrotsky2 <TTrotsky_at_...>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:32:21 -0000


Jane:

> That, and in the general
> published-and-used-by-everyone-else Glorantha, in
> which (as we point out every time that "explanation"
> is given), no such dependency is documented or even
> suggested at.

Prior to OiD, I presume you mean?

> There's mythic precedent for the idea
> that if Ernalda "goes to sleep", Orlanth goes off
> looking for her, and the Great Darkness follows.
> There's none to suggest that if you send Orlanth away,
> Ernalda is weakened in the slightest.

She evidently is in Greg's Glorantha, whether its been documented before or not, and whether or not it makes sense in your Glorantha (or mine, for that matter). We clearly *are* in a 'YGWV' situation, whether we expected to be or not, and there's no particular reason Greg should help us with that. OTOH, there's no particular reason why anyone shouldn't, either...

> So to do it, the Lunars need to do whatever
> caused the Great Darkness. It could be worth a look at
> what *they* think that was, now that we (well, those
> people who've studied Lunar mythology) have more
> information on the subject.

That's probably the approach I'd use to the problem in my Glorantha, too, when it crops up. As it will, at some point. Dunno the answer yet, though.

-- 
Trotsky
Gamer and Skeptic

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