Re:Viking Cleanliness/Dorkath

From: Mike Dawson <mdawson_at_...>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 14:35:26 -0000

> > Of course, one of the beauties of Glorantha is that all societies are
> > welcome to deride each other as smelly and dirty, and they are all
> perfectly correct!
> 9snip0
> "Carmanian" membership gets you into the cold and hot baths; "Pelorian," the
> cold and warm; "Dara Happan," the warm and hot; only full-blown "Lunar"
> membership gets you into each and every one of the baths. (At a premium,
> naturally: this *is* a commercial enterprise).
>

How unsurprising that such a barbarous spot would be unable to provide a full spectrum of civilized bathing, as is available only in the most civilized city in the world - Dorkath! While rightly famous for its public system of wine plumbing and attractive spring festivals, true sybarites know of the Six Blessed Baths and the Four Proper Temperatures which may be combined into the Twenty-three Healthful Baths (and the Twenty-Fourth Final Bath, which is not healthful.)

The Six Blessed Baths:
Water
Mud
Milk
Honey
Oil
Air

That poor exile did manage to get the Four Temperatures correct.

The Twenty-Fourth Final Bath is, of course, the Hot Oil Treatment. After it, you never have to worry about problems with your hair again.

No one bathes more than the Dorkathi and for that reason, they don't understand why foreigners insist on calling them "dirty."

Now, sad are those hate-twisted rejects who insist on their fell rites with the Seventh Bath, of blood.

Mike