And as I now know, picking up the much higher quality image from the Glorantha3D group is also handy. Much bigger file size, though, that would have taken all week on the PDA.
> The one by Kallyr definitely looks like earthenware
> and fairly crude earthenware at that.
Yes, now I can see it better I agree with you. Still, earthenware on a wooden floor doesn't usually break. Been there, done that...
> If it's associated with Dark
> Earth that would
> explain why the man has discarded it. It may have
> red wine in it at
> present but it's been used for blood in the past.
And if he just got told that... It looks like he did drop it, it wasn't thrown. The red liquid in it just trickled out, it doesn't splash along a flight-path. Maybe he dropped it because he needed the hand free for something else - defending himself, defending Kallyr..?
> There's something about her expression which says
> fear to me, poorly
> covered with anger. The rest as you say is probably
> a pose.
Tension, certainly. That eyeshadow doesn't help - yes, she's dressed for a ritual, not for battle, all right.
> Yes, TiF mentions beheading as the standard method
> of obtaining
> sacrifices. They could be human heads with grossly
> distorted features
> but I'm not sure. They might be some other creature.
They look more human than anything else, to me.
> Of course
> carved heads on furniture don't have to mean
> beheadings, historically
> they rarely did. They could be some sort of guardian
> like gargoyles on churches.
Indeed.
> I'm not entirely sure about the Dark Earth
> connection. You don't
> sacrifice grain to Maran Gor or Hon-Eel but to
> Esrola.
But axes? That's Dark Earth. Maybe she's here to talk about the problems of paying taxes in grain (remember, the Kheldon are mainly grain-producers), and has come up with a radical way of improving yield. There was a spell in KoDP that had that effect, IIRC: any battles on clan soil fertilised the ground.
> There's an idea - she wants to change the Earth
> Goddess in Tarsh
> from Hon-Eel to Esrola by HQing. So she's got a load
> of ritual
> stuff from a temple to Hon-Eel and is going to take
> a sacrifice
> of grain and red wine onto the HP to prove that
> Tarsh can be
> fertile without human sacrifice. I get the
> impression that the
> Hon-Eel of Tarsh has adopted a lot of Maran Gor
> symbols and practices.
(splutter)
well, it's the right "size" thinking for Kallyr,
certainly.
But why Tarsh? Why would Kallyr be interested in Tarsh?
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