Re: Teshnos in HW: Glorantha and HQ Voices

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_fPlJV88umK8rrEr2M8UTsqVd9HDHg5H-YPDu1hEaAD5GewqVHmGmgBPFJLbvcn756OS>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:25:55 +1300

Todd Gardiner wrote:
> That all points to the interesting questions of: By what mechanism do
> Teshnans know a reborn individual's past lives?

The life-flame.

> How is the connection
> "proven" (potentially with errors, as with our legal system) between the
> reborn and the chain of lives he is connected to?

The connection is proven by magically looking at the life-flame and reading the flame-poem "magical inscriptions in their life-flame" Glorantha: Intro p201.

 > And how are "new" souls,
 > which are to become peasants, identified?

By writing in the flame-poem.

--Peter Metcalfe