Re: Teshnos in HW: Glorantha and HQ Voices

From: Todd Gardiner <todd.gardiner_at_YTyJJsMMvwHxSmj7d8wdLlfzMipPkAthyNwyIvkAxj2Y3iX_56SjJx-iilAub_>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:03:52 -0800

Yes, but that still leaves Hal a lot of room on deciding what that process is, how people use the process, degrees of access, and so on. Lots of room to work out the interesting details of the specifics.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Peter Metcalfe < metcalph_at_BR_WDDcTG7gOWeT944oGg1yh8GrtTPavw4E0EBxnqSkD21RZczpKRwdUTIGIap6s2axkePQZY5eunNK_zuWQ_F0.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

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> Todd Gardiner wrote:
> > That all points to the interesting questions of: By what mechanism do
> > Teshnans know a reborn individual's past lives?
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> The life-flame.
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> > 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?
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> 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.
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> > And how are "new" souls,
> > which are to become peasants, identified?
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> By writing in the flame-poem.
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> --Peter Metcalfe
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