You are generally on track here Oliver.
Animals used to be that way, anyway. That was the truth in the earliest
mythic ages that can be found on the Hero Planes. If people go "back far
enough" then the animals are limited to the pure animals of that world.
Danmalastan, for instance, is full of sorcerous animals only. Note that
those zoologies do not include all the animals that are known today, and
they do include many animals that are extinct today. Such perfect places
are the "paradise ages" and one of the proofs used by the God Learners
saying that the worlds were originally separate and later collided to
create Glorantha.
Note too that no one in those primal ages realizes that their animals at
that period are anything but normal, or even that they could be something
else. Learning this would end the age of innocence. If a hero went back
then to check whether all animals were sorcerous in Danmalastan, then he
might find that it was NOT so. This is the equivalent of violating the
Green Age, bringing an awareness to it that was not known before. This is
exactly the kind of action that violates the Green Age (-like) purity of
the "paradise ages" and bears serious repercussions for whoever disrupts
the original worlds.
The prehistoric Hero Ages saw the extermination of most of the pure
animals, and also the mixing together of the creatures of the various
worlds to make Glorantha. Most of the animals alive are Burtae, "bastard
animals" or "mixed creatures" or "impure hybrids." Horses bred with horses,
cows with bulls, and so on. Thus many animals are of no world except the
inner world of Glorantha.
A couple parallels to keep in mind:
The same thing happened with plants. However, Aldrya managed to contain all
of those within her. Her being includes spirt trees, god trees, essence
trees, and mixed trees.
Also, everyone knows how human beings were made of the "man rune," which
was made by all the gods mixing themselves together, or contributred to its
making. This is another example of the same mixing up.
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