however the Elves and the Trolls and the Merpeoples and the Dara Happans have some utterly divergent points of view concerning these elemental Ages. /// Something escapes me : being Plants, the elves absolutely need sunlight to live. So there had to be a sun for them in the Green Age. Another paradox revealed !
> I think that each elemental Power has its own fundamental (and usually, I'd
> imagine, very obscure) mythology of elemental progression, naming one
> particular element as the First, and another particular element as the Last.
/// So you don't accept there's a general agreement on the progression Darkness
-> Water -> Earth -> Fire -> Air ?
> If you look at the GRAoY for instance, it seems clear that Solar culture
> views Fire as the first and preeminent element ;
/// Do they ? It's the Most Important but do they see it as the First Come ? The
earth was already there (see Darsen myths, etc.)
the merpeople similarly view Water as having been first /// Many mermen cults seem to aknowledge that Darkness was first...
> Another important point is that very VERY few 3rd Age Gloranthans take any
> kind of interest in such questions ;)
/// I do ! But if you guys are tired of the subject, I'll let it go.
> erm ... IIRC you're proposing making a full monomyth of the blue moon ? hmm
> ... I'd guess that's a bit of a paradoxical project ; because if you wanted
> to be exhaustive, you need to include the Loony element, which throws your
> monomyth out the window at first opportunity, right ? :D
/// My monomyth can excluded the Loonies, or whatever else I don't like ! But it
will include Madness in some form.
> I'm not really sure though how useful any of this might be for gaming
> purposes -- unless you have some kind of diabolical plan to get your players
> mixed up with some strange clique of Lunar pacifists from the Blue Moon
> Plateau on some kind of educational/propaganda mission/pilgrimage somewhere
> ???
/// Even worst. It all started, all of things, with my interest in the Loper
Folk for my Fay Jee campaign (players, go away). I plan on a very spectacular
showdown with the resurrected / recalled zaranistangi sometimes in the future,
near Fay Jee. Then I realized they worshipped Annilla AND Emilla (which I call
Baraku, Emilla is a wimp name). And I started digging... and enjoy it.
> The abstract questions are somewhat interesting I find, and there are surely
> some Gloranthans wondering about them in their heads -- but they're really so
> obscure that it's quite hard to see their usefulness for a game. That's
> really what I meant when I asked you what point of view you were looking for.
> It's a bit hard to get properly hands on otherwise... :)
/// In this case, it's pure intellectual relaxation for me - plus the eternal
casting of the net to fish for interesting ideas.
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