Re: Teshnos in HW: Glorantha and HQ Voices

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From: L C <lightcastle_at_Lr5zC7360MysuMMz63e5N9o4Mwmn_hcfjIuhASSk6d4ZWffsuzoK-dZ95-iX6Mpe>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:13:12 -0500

Peter Metcalfe wrote:
>
> In my opinion, the flame poem is nothing like a blow-by-blow event of
> everything you did.
>

I'm with Peter on this. That would be terribly boring.
>
>
> 1) the quality of the life-flame itself. This tells others what sort of
> persons you are (ie is there an unresolved taint of murder on your
> life-flame?) but it is blind to historical details.
>

Very cool and I'd go for that.
>
>
> 2) the text of the flame-poem. This has the historical details but is
> little more than a poetic account of your lives written in Teshnan upon
> your soul. It is about as reliable as Orlanthi boasting for historical
> accuracy.
>

Are you going with the idea that it is as much about how the soul remembers/perceives those lives as it is what actually happened? I'm leaning that route. So you can read in the flame poem what the soul thinks/feels about its lives, but not more than that. Thus there could be only a small taint on the soul, but much self-flagellation in the flame poem for transgressions, and so on.