> > Adept:
> > > I would go with flax, instead of cotton in Genertela. Parhaps
> > > cotton in Pamaltela.
>
> [Joerg]
> > I think that Dara Happan cotton is a nod to Mississippi and fertile
> > crescent climate and vegetation, and intentional - right alongside
> > the papyrus along the Oslir.
>
> Heh :) To me Glorantha resonates with ancient old world
> civilizations. Mississippi is just too strange a mental leap for me.
> Still, most of us can't easily tell if a cloth is linen or cotton, so
> it's not all that important. The look of the fields is very different,
> of course.
FWIW, Greg and I have repeatedly discussed the Mississippi as a key
inspiration for the Oslir. St. Louis is approximately where Alkoth
would be and Memphis is where Raibanth would be. Obviously many of
the details are wrong, but that's the mental image.
Jeff