One might argue that the great power was not really gained so much as revealed, and Gloranthan evolution could therefore be considered more Darwinian. I think that a couple of philosophical Lunars might take this view, although of course most Gloranthans would consider things to be getting worse, devolving from Golden Age perfection, rather than any sort of survival of the fittest adaptions for change.
Keith
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> Please don't take me as a source, but I *THINK* I recall sitting talking to Greg/listening to him at some panel where he mentioned that Lamarckian evolution worked in Glorantha.
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> Surely, it is documentably true even if Greg didn't say it. Heroes can gain great powers during their lives, and pass some portion of that power on to their progeny.
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> Mike Dawson
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> --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, hcarteau@ wrote:
> >
> > Selon fairbruk <kevin_at_>:
> >
> > > I'll try (to rephrase). And of course I'm failing to write as a Gloranthan
> > sage, so this is all wrong by definition.
> > /// Of course. Besides, it'd all depend on which kind of "gloranthan sage" you
> > are : dara happan, kralori, malkioni, lunar etc.
> >
> > > If we don't have a reason for DNA, we don't have a reason for cells as we
> > > understand them:
> > /// Yes.
> >
> > though something similar probably makes a useful building block.
> > /// Yes : the five Elements, ten Powers, five Forms (especially the Man Rune)
> > and five Actions.
> >
> > If we don't have significant evolution effects we probably don't have any
> > apparently pointless evolutionary hangovers such as an appendix (theories vary
> > on this though).
> > /// Hmm... OK.
> >
> > A baby in the womb will grow perhaps echoing how a "human" body was shaped by
> > the gods, which is probably a bit different. And so on.
> > /// OK.
> >
> > Thus you might wonder how it came to pass that a being created through long
> > evolution and genetics came to look and function like a being created by the
> > gods, spirits and logic.
> > /// Ah. Now I think I understand what you mean. I'd say there is not one answer,
> > as usual, but as many as there are cultures. Here's a few :
> >
> > - we are born according to the holy processes of bio-Logic. After long
> > devolution, we still retain some of the Perfect Form of God, which is why we
> > have an essence, two arms and legs, etc.
> >
> > - our first ancestors were shaped by (God X) from clay/darkness/whatever. He/She
> > gave us our form, that which our children still have today.
> >
> > It's true that it's hard to intellectually accept a World that doesn't run on
> > evolution, living blocks, etc. But it doesn't make gaming any more difficult or
> > less pleasant !
> >
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