I am in the midst of moving.
I am no able to access my books, but thi is an interesting question.
I will address it when I am able.
On 8/2/07, danguillou <dguillou_at_GCNQkZDmO0rC407Oi0iLLYj8HBWgKPr-7w6lQNIF3qhNOl2Z6z9gWMpoF4qx5hFl2o2_o_F6N5unKC8.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
>
> Jakaleeli shamans are equally at home in the lunar otherworld and on the
> spirit plane,
> right? Now I wonder...
>
> Are there other lunar denominations that have a special relationship to a
> specifik
> otherworld? There are three ones in particular that I'm curious about.
>
> The Cerise Church and other wizard schools in the ruby religion. Can they
> read/use/learn/
> steal stuff from the sorcerous otherworld? Can they go to the nodes? (Hey,
> whatabout
> Irrippi Ontor, what does he use that "Read Malkioni Magical Text" for?)
>
> Hon-Eel and Deezola seems to have a very special relationship with earth
> religion. Do their
> priestesses get alien world penalties when doing earthy theistic stuff?
> (Or is that a special
> power that their ordinates can heroquest for?)
>
> Finally, I believed that the Moon we all know and love, was a legitimate
> member of the Sky
> Pantheon. She appears here and there in Pelorian mythology, maybe as far
> back as late
> green age, and she was one of the ten planets, and protector of one of the
> ten holy
> metropoli, right? (Okay, so they had a little falling out after Yelm was
> assassinated and she
> was shot down in flames on her holy city, or whatever, but still.) She is
> on Gods Wall, and
> if you heroquest during the golden age you might find her at Yelms court,
> right? As I said
> – legitimate member of Sky Pantheon. As far as I can tell that is what
> allowed the empire to
> graft all the newfangledness onto the existing yelmic/dara happan
> religion, as well as take
> over and run a religiously correct (orhtodox) dara happan yelmic empire?
> (Or have I just been reading too much unfinished works?)
>
> What's going on here?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan Guillou
>
>
> PS Are there any plans for an ILHB3, the "Imperial Solar Handbook" with
> all the old ways in
> detail? Or will those kind things be spread out in Sun Son City and other
> coming products?
>
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Greg Stafford
Game Designer
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