Re: Rightarm Islands - a word about the ships

From: Greg Stafford <Greg_at_uvDDhhMkwq1F3CUzfPLjIjRV3Z3Cbu7aMFyoL6raHLRGutvs9Zd4iNEZH3WfvtdSDRuvU3g>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:13:40 -0700

YGWV For me, the Artmali did NOT use outriggers. Nor is any of their naval tradition extant. They had weird flying/sailing on moon beam ships made of metal.

--Greg

jorganos wrote:
>
> --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:WorldofGlorantha%40yahoogroups.com>, "nils_w" <nils_at_...> wrote:
> >
> > --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:WorldofGlorantha%40yahoogroups.com>, David Dunham <david_at_> wrote:
>
> >> In my game, the quintessential Artmali ship is sort of Polynesian:
> >> "huge carved logs with sails and oars." [Revealed Mythologies p.37]
> >> The voyaging canoe at <http://www.francispimmel.com/
> <http://www.francispimmel.com/>> seems
> >> plausible (though of course it would be blue).
>
> > The ships of the Sendereven are great catamarans with stone hulls.
> > Are there any connections between the Artmail and the Sendereven?
>
> Revealed Mythologies makes a possible connection (name similarities
> and blue skin) between the proto-Maslan colony in Duravan and the
> Artmali navies - as hostile slavers. The Maslans finally get saved by
> the Sendereven Great Outrigger.
>
> The Artmali shipbuilding survives in Fonrit and does not use
> double-hulls for its warsails or merchant ships. (The RuneQuest stats
> for the Warsail surely would have mentioned that fact...)
>
> Do we know the types of ships used by the Vadeli, by the way?
> I think they started with Dormal designs, but the story about the
> travellers in the ship rolling over indicates that they added some
> modifications.
>
>

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