Re: The Old Man and the Feldichi

From: Jeff Richard <richaje_at_hhMPGuKUp9MSjd4QB0t5NTxSZ8aq0NxfKJ0CXO4_ig_NCSC-LWIha709V_9KEEx3nMrc>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:01:46 -0000


> Given the lousy state of the Talastarings at the Awakening, I see much
> potential for things thoroughly forgotten - both among themselves and
> among their neighbors. Up to an entire race forgetting their name and
> their civilization due to their cultural god being eaten by chaos,
> even losing one of their shapes (the humanoid one).

The Talastarings lost a lot during the Darkness. They lost their unity with the other Top of the World Orlanthi (or Viskuranthings). They lost a lot of their knowledge. And their neighbors may have lost more.

> I'm speaking of the Gold Wheel Dancers.

A good folk to bring up - one of the more mysterious entities in Glorantha. Frankly, I don't even have a good handle on them!

> > Other stories widespread among the survivors of Talastar call the
> > husband of Dorasa, "the Betrayer," or The Evil One," and also
> > Eurmal.
> Another face of Rashoran, then?

Possibly. Or of Eurmal. Or of Ratslaff. Or a prior Gbaji.....

> > The Talastarings look upon the so-called "father of the Feldichi" as
> > a treacherous, perhaps even chaotic, being whose interests were
> > anti-human. That the elves loved him only reinforces their belief.
> > That the dwarves hated him does the same.
> Does this mean that the elves retain memories of the Feldichi?

I think it does. The dwarves certainly do. They forget nothing!

> > And the Feldichi were neither men nor gods.
> They appear to be strangely secluded, too. The Vingkotlings (who
> fought about everyone within 2000 miles distance from Kero Fin but the
> Kralori) have lots of mythical battles against dwarfen, beast and elf
> things from that direction, but no sign of interaction with the
> Feldichi. Unless...

Could just be that story hasn't been told yet. Never make a conclusion in Glorantha that something didn't happen simply because no story currently exists. Then again, you could be right.

> > They were treacherous beings whose gifts
> > invariable doomed the recipient. Many refer to them as the "damned
> > Feldichi, fathers of ogres, canibals and seducers, they tricked the
> > dwarfs in a contest of crafting - and won!"
> Father of cannibals: is that a slight against Porscriptor, the
> non-Vingkotling husband of Infithe?

Don't think so. It could be that the Feldichi are the original ogres!  (Or it might not!!!)

> > That's why the dwarfs
> > hate them so and why their gifts are so deadly to their recipients.
> That, again, sounds a lot like old-style Riddler illumination.

It does, doesn't it!

Jeff            

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