- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, Michael Hitchens
<michaelh_at_...> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, andrew968859 wrote:
>
> > --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, donald@ wrote:
> >>
> >> In message <Pine.GSO.4.63.0703201542220.11521_at_> Michael Hitchens
> > writes:
> >>>
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> Anyone know why Minaryth Purple always wears purple?
> >>>
> >>> I have some thoughts, but would welcome others.
> >>
> >
> > He signs himself as 'Minaryth Purple, Sage'.
> >
> > I've always assumed that the out-of-game reason for the name was
a
> > reference to 'Riders of the Purple Sage'.
>
> Hmmm - never heard of them before I looked them up on the web just
now.
> Learn something new every day.....
>
> Still leaves me wondering whether it's personal choice, a geas or
> something else.
>
> Michael
That title has been the source of many puns, such as the story in
the first Thieves World collection 'Spiders of the Purple Mage'.
Andrew