Re: Casinotown

From: Jeff <richaje_at_g8mL0v8R9PX9CHgfz84PQLZvd4BKmpuHmYnJdIdoW6zgs52EtEOcBFdkygjD16ShX5oT>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 07:08:08 -0000

> If presence in the History of the Heortling People is a criterion, there was no Karse after the Dawn. Neither the people of God Forgot nor the Pelaskite fisherfolk are Heortling Peoples, so their omission is quite in keeping with the book's focus. (I mean, the city of Karse doesn't even get a number of inhabitants on the cover map, but the fisherman village of Sklar one estuary further south does...)

I've got lots of maps of Kethaela and Heortland from the Dawn through the Third Age. None before the Third Age show Casino Town. But pretty much all of them show Karse (although the pre-Third Age maps show Karse on the other side of the river).

One thing to keep in mind, cities come and go in Glorantha. Some cities can claim continuous occupation from before the Dawn, but not many. The world changes and is not timeless (despite what some Dara Happans and mystics claim).

Jeff