RE: Re: Sesarto the Artist and Whitewall Building materials

From: Jeff Richard <richj_at_...>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:28:31 -0800

Good question. Whatever it is, it should help the Orlanthi.  

BTW, where does the arm come from? I think we've just joined two stories that probably don't fit. Jane - no offense, but I really like Oliver's Helamakt story. Besides - this gets us as close to a Light House as we are going to get.  

Jeff

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	From: Stewart Stansfield [mailto:stu_stansfield_at_...] 
	Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 2:27 PM
	To: whitewall_at_yahoogroups.com
	Subject: Re: Sesarto the Artist and Whitewall

Building materials                  

> > Ok geologists - can you justify this?
        

        Yep. Is that ok? ;)           

> It's magic! (Waves hands dismissively about the need for
things to

> make sense like they're supposed to in the RW:-)).
        

        Tha' sounds grand. So if I get this straight, Helamakt fights the sea

        beasties, raises up the mound of their bones so's that he can breathe

        and cause more carnage. The seas recede, and leave the now limestone

        tor behind. Elements of slain beasts can still be seen, and perhaps

	eve tortured scenes of his conflict are reflected in the marble 
	(sorry, remembering an old Star Wars comic 20+ years ago). The
rugged 
	beauty of the place may then have been somewhat altered when a
large 
	giant's arm suddenly comes cartwheeling through the air and
splatters 
	over it. For those who like such things, this force blasts the
tor 
	into glistening marble, impregated by crystallised giants blood
by 
	those who like big shiny bits.
	
	The inside of the tor can still have all the nice caves caverns
and 
	tunnels, wells and shafts and stuff, as it can easily still be 
	limestone (not that this geology really matters, anyway). Now,
the 
	actual fortress may have been built from the marble, the
limestone, 
	Joerg's quartzite, my quartzite--THE BUUURNIN' SEEEED OF THE 
	GAAAAAAWWDDS!--, or elements of Two Ridge Black Top, if you can
avoid 
	the diminutive motorcycle cop. Or whatever his Gloranthan

version is.         

        Out of interest, given this paradigm, what exactly do we think any

        landscape daimon for the tor/hill might be?         

        Stu.                                    

        The New World Is Born On the Walls On Whitewall. Come the Hurricane!                  

        The New World Can Be Healed. Whitewall Must Fall!                                             

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