Re: beating the bat

From: Greg Stafford <Greg_at_9dOPGA6_FBWt6Rb1Wwj9MqP7C8EKmW7NJFv8skVoiK2rTGriwkSXL2oBaKFYZYBVkUmL6St>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:01:04 -0800


YGWV
>>> Air and Fire are neutral to each other on the Elemental
>>> Wheel. (Water beats Fire). Now, where in the Empire might we find
>>> Earth...
>>> say, is that Lodril over there?
>>
>> Bad luck - he is a known fire deity (at least to the Orlanthi).
>
> I thought you were looking for imperial Earth to quiet the barbarian Storm -
> and he's an Earthy guy to the Imperials.

He is Fire Within the Earth.
Dayzatar: pure fire, way out there.
Yelm: reachable fire, mostly pure.
Lodril: low fire, "fallen" fire, in the earth. Very earthy, yes, but of fiery origin.

>> I agree that dealing with the Bat ought to be major "There's always
>> another way" juju. But it shouldn't be expected from the
>> ultra-traditionalist king of the Volsaxar.
>
> Where did Broyan get that reputation? I can't find it among the various
> books I (quickly) scanned. And "Traditionalist" for a god of Change and
> Movement who has cunnng as a big component of his makeup. The idea of
> Orlanthi as Back-wood Conservative Rednecks is just plain *wrong*. They are
> probably the second most accepting people (after the Lunars) in Genertela.
> They just won't accept Chaos, or anything that stinks of it - and that
> includes the Lunars. But conservative (in the "if we didn't think of it at
> the dawn it's bad" sort of way) isn't part of their makeup.

I agree with this assessment.

> I don't think I am projecting too much on the Imperials to have some clue to
> the Orlanthi. Their contact has not been all War. There are converts from
> Storm to Moon that were, I'm sure, happy to tell all they knew.

And they have a few thousand "orlanthi without orlanth" to work for them, fron Tarsh.



Sincerely,
Greg Stafford

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