Re: R: Re: Off topic romans

From: Gianfranco Geroldi <giangero_at_...>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:19:43 -0700 (PDT)

Jane, I don't make any judgement.
I think I see your point in this instance, but I don't care very much for it: who/what is valued less or more? Who cares? I merely offer my vision which is different from yours even if very much based on the same 'sources' (the various gloranthan books). I am also simply aware that authors and readers and fan/contributors have different ideas in their mind and that all shaped (their) glorantha. Care to share shaping a little more of it in whitewall? I am here to help as you are.

• Ven 13/3/09, Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...> ha scritto:

Da: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...> Oggetto: Re: R: Re: Off topic romans
A: whitewall_at_yahoogroups.com
Data: Venerdì 13 marzo 2009, 16:05

> > > *Probably* in the fifteen or so years between Borderlands and Imperial Lunar Handbook 1
> > > many enthusiastic fans put more 'roman' flavour in the scarce information that was provided for the Lunars

>> Make that "people" rather than the derisory "fans" and I'll agree with you.

> Really? To me fan is not derisory or derogatory, but... I consider myself a proud gloranthan fan.

But you quote what the original authors may have intended as if it mattered more than what *you* intended. As if you, as a "fan", are somehow less important to the development of Glorantha, all those people who developed the place in that 15-year span are less important, by being labelled "fan".

> To me, considering the roman as an evil empire is strange indeed and Asterix is mildly antipathic ;-)

Well, yes, I suppose so... I don't actually see the Romans as all that evil (small "e") myself, either. But the dramatic conflict is between Evil Empire and Heroic Barbarian: from that viewpoint, all empires are Evil simply by being empires, and that definitely includes the British one.       

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