Re: When Worlds Collide

From: nils_w <nils_at_En0Q1Z5jwBMiowT_h1-4skxs1W25MWXneH9abmC2Vlot7iRkt7AakByy9uwh7erJ0IPrkO4>
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:47:28 -0000

>
> This is related to the mysticism discussion:
>
> Back in the days of 'Hero Wars' and 'Revealed Mythologies', we were
> taught that the Middle World of Glorantha was formed by the collision
> of four Otherworlds. Each one came from a different direction, which
> is why the West of Glorantha is predominantly sorcerous, the North
> theist, the East mystic and the South animist.
>
> Now, though, everyone talks of just three Otherworlds. So what
> happened to the fourth one?
...

There never was a mystic otherworld. The otherworlds are par of the non-physical, and the mystic state is neither physical nor non-physical.

But

Charles:
>* The 3 worlds were so wrecked by the greater darkness that mortals
>could no longer live in them and immortals could remain in their
>home only by consenting to maintaining their existence unchanged and
>unchanging. Mortals (and many immortals) migrate to the mystical
>world, which becomes the mortal or centre world. The 3 worlds become
>the otherworlds.

which is a very cool idea. Call the fourth world "eastern" or something rather than "mystical" and it could work!