Re: Re: Pelorian forests

From: Gianfranco Geroldi <janjero_at_...>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 22:20:12 +0100


> > OK, but Aldryami are Solar cultist and Solars are an imperialistic
> > bunch.
>
> Aldryami are NOT a part of the Solar culture. They are best described
> as animist and they worship the sun the way a plant does. The aldryami
> GROW. The Solars RULE. The two are similar but hardly identical.

Yes, but they did found empires (house of Errinoru). BTW were these Aldryami empires political realities in human terms or in Aldryami terms (not that I have a slight idea of the difference, but maybe some of you have).

> > I think possible, nay likeable, that Aldyami clans periodically try
> > and
>
> Maybe. I don't think that the Aldryami have clans. They are very, very
> different. And they are not 'elves' I think, yes?

Sure.

> > infest new woods. Maybe Lunars, nowadays, even help in this (secret)
> > conspiracy: they rid themselves of annoying parasites and trouble the
> > smelly
> > barbarians with a new pest.
>
> The Lunars appear to have never cooperated with the Aldryami. For one
> thing, the Aldryami want to reforest (not colonize) the whole Pelorian
> basin. They want it ALL back. Check into 'elder race plots' section in
> the HW: GLorantha book.
>
> To have an alrdryami forest, you have to have a sacred grove. That has
> to be planted and grown. That's how they colonize, I THINK. Plantings
> and seedlings and long, slow plans that bear fruit.... Not invasions or
> coloniziing expeditions.
>
> They think like trees because they are trees. And they live a very,
> very long time.

I thought so, before reading about the Krarshti Aldryami in Dorastor. OK, they were maybe more krarshti than Aldryami, but they were quick, violent, aggressive and blood-thirsted. I think that, being an Aldryam,i, I would accept exile and fight with the barbarians, before being moon-burnt again! When your race is threatened, if you are sentient you tend to become faster...

Gian

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