>> (1) A fallen star from Orlanth's ring somewhere in Brolia would >> make a great objective for a quest (what does it look like? a giant >> crystal?) (2) I agree that a fallen star can be a person or an >> object or both, but I will leave it to the philosophers to decide >> whether it can simultaneously be a metaphor.
> As it would have been witnessed (possibly) on a Glorantha-wide level,
> surely every culture would have a different perspective on what it
> meant and what it actually was.
But it wasn't a gloranthan wide event. It was somebody heroquesting in Brolia and failing. As a result stars fell on his homeland. I don't see why we should deny this in favour of a polymythed interpretation from folks who know very little about Peloria and care even less.
--Peter Metcalfe
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